Politics and Globalisation - Knowledge, Ethics and Agency (Hardcover, New)

Globalization is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as undermined by globalization, or needing to respond to it. This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked in our understanding of politics. It suggests that globalization is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalization: the extent and political significance of globalizing changes in economy and society; how and how far the relations and forms of nation-state organization are transformed; whether the given concepts and methods of political science as a discipline can be applied to global and regional politics, and whether they require radical reformulation; the role and significance of ethical questions in global change; and whether global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political agency. The book brings together experts in the fields of political science and international rela

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Martin Shaw
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20698-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-20698-7
Barcode:	9780415206983

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