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Rethinking the State in the Age of Globalisation, v. 10 - Catholic Thought and Contemporary Political Theory (Hardcover)
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Rethinking the State in the Age of Globalisation, v. 10 - Catholic Thought and Contemporary Political Theory (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R578
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From the time of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes, political theorists
have depicted the state as "sovereign" because it holds preeminent
authority over all the denizens belonging to its geographically
defined territory. From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 until the
beginning of World War I in 1914, the essential responsibities
ascribed to the sovereign state were maintaining internal and
external security and promoting domestic prosperity. This idea of
"the state" in political theory is clearly inadequate to the
realities of national governments and international relations at
the beginning of the twenty-first century. During the twentieth
century, the sovereign state, as a reality and an idea, had been
variously challenged from without and within its borders. What will
be the direction of the state in the age of globalisation? Can
Catholic political thinking contribute to an adequate concept of
statehood and government? A group of German and American scholars
were asked to explore specific ways in which the intellectual
traditions of Catholicism might help our effort to rethink the
state. The debate, as represented in the contributions to this
book, is guided by the conviction that these intellectual resources
will prove valuable to political theorists as they work to revise
our understanding of the state.
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