| Description |
xiii, 295 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in international relations ; 73 |
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Cambridge studies in international relations ; 73
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: globality in historical perspective -- Pt. I. Critique -- 2. Critique of national and international relations -- 3. Intimations of globality: Hamlet without the Prince -- Pt. II. History and agency -- 4. Internationalized bloc-states and democratic revolution -- 5. Global revolution, counterrevolution and genocidal war -- Pt. III. State -- 6. State in globality -- 7. Relations and forms of global state power -- 8. Contradictions of state power: towards the global state? -- Pt. IV. Conclusion -- 9. Politics of the unfinished revolution |
| Summary |
"This study rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Martin Shaw argues that the deepest meaning of globality is the growing sense of worldwide human commonality as a practical social force, arising from political struggle, not technological change. The book focusses upon two new concepts: the unfinished global-democratic revolution and the global-Western state. Shaw shows how an internationalized, post-imperial Western state conglomerate, symbiotically linked to global institutions, is increasingly consolidated amidst worldwide democratic upheavals against authoritarian, quasi-imperial non-Western state. This study explores the radical implications of these concepts for social, political and international theory, through a fundamental critique of modern 'national-international' social thought and dominant economistic versions of global theory |
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Theory of the Global State offers a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index |
| Subject |
Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization.
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Nation-state.
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International relations.
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| LC no. |
00040340 |
| ISBN |
052159250X (hb) |
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0521597307 (pb) |
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