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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: D. ChandlerPublisher: Palgrave USA Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.321kg ISBN: 9781403987891ISBN 10: 1403987890 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 14 September 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'This is an important critique of normative and practical projects for 'global civil society.' Chandler identifies the disturbingly elitist and anti-democratic elements of the programs that claim to be the only serious alternatives to the unaccountable and undemocratic mechanisms of contemporary global governance.' - Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, USA 'Within the English literature on global civil society this book stands out as an important contribution for manifold reasons. First of all it accurately distinguishes between the empirical approach and the normative one. From the empirical point of view David Chandler's sharp analysis explains the reasons which are behind the increasing success of the notion of 'global civil society' within the Western academic culture, journalist lexicon, and political rhetoric. From the normative point of view Chandler emphasizes a telling coincidence: on one hand, we are witnessing a serious crisis of domestic political arenas, paralysed as they are because of the lack of legitimacy, responsiveness and accountability of democratic regimes. On the other hand, there is a diffuse expectation that radical changes can result from the demolition of all domestic frontiers. The highest merit of the book lies in its realist attitude towards the globalist idealism. According to Chandler, the success of the notion of 'global civil society' is much more a consequence of the crisis of Western democracies than an expression of a new, real dimension of international relations. Globalist idealism and democratic malaise are two sides of the same coin.' - Danilo Zolo, Professor of Politics, University of Florence, Italy Author InformationDAVID CHANDLER is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK. He has published widely on international relations, democracy and human rights, including Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton (1999, 2000), From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Relations (2002) and Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (Editor, 2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |