Political theorists have long debated whether globalization marks a
novel form of political and economic order or is simply a
reconfiguration of older capitalist and imperialist imperatives.
Carlo Galli contends that it is neither; rather, globalization is
the development, in a new and destructive direction, of the
unstable and precarious equilibrium that constituted modern
political space from its very inception.
The first book by Galli, the influential Italian historian of
political thought, to be translated into English, "Political Spaces
and Global War" offers a provocative genealogy of the global age.
By connecting the foundations of classical and modern political
thought to the concrete arrangements of geographical space that
inform those concepts, Galli reveals globalization to be,
qualitatively and quantitatively, an extreme torsion of modern
political space. Central to Galli's understanding of the
fundamental instability of modern political space is that warfare,
usually seen as a breakdown in the prevailing order, can no longer
be distinguished from politics-globalization is, in effect, a world
of war.
Tracing the concept of political space from Greek and Roman
philosophy to the post-9/11 period, Galli shows that the modern
nation-state, in theory and practice, contains within it the
conditions for both its own implosion (into totalitarianism) and
explosion (as globalization). To move beyond this crisis, he
argues, the logic of modern political space and the national
boundaries that define it must be boldly reimagined.
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