Overview

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

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Author:   Gideon Baker ,  David Chandler ,  Professor of Chemistry David Chandler (University of Westminster, London, UK University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.172kg
ISBN:  

9780415429788

ISBN 10:   0415429781
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 November 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: global civil society and the future of world politics PART l Global civil society - contesting current trends 1 Global civil society: analytical category or normative concept? 2 Cosmocracy and global civil society 3 The demoralised subject of global civil society 4 The changing role of global civil society 5 Contextualising the 'anti-capitalism' movement in global civil society PART 2 Global civil society - contesting future possibilities 6 The idea of global civil society 7 Saying global civil society with rights 8 Global civil society: thinking politics and progress 9 Constructing global civil society 10 Global civil society and global governmentality: resistance, reform or resignation? 11 Global civil society as politics of faith

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Gideon Baker is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Salford. He is the author of Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices (also published by Routledge). David Chandler is a senior lecturer in International Relations at The Centre for the Study of Democracy, The University of Westminster. He is the author of Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations; From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention; and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton.

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