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Expansive and engaging, this book investigates the fluidity of
sites of power and authority in global politics. Examining the key
shifts and turns of politics in globally oriented spaces since the
end of the Cold War, contributions from leading scholars explore
the continually shifting parameters of global governance. The book
assesses how, in this ever-evolving global space, norms and rules
are constantly being challenged and new technologies are altering
the scope and uses of political power. Chapters explore these
reconfigurations of authority, power, and territoriality,
critically analysing the implications of the rise of multiple
states as powerful actors in the international system, dissecting
the dominant discourse on the securitization of migration and
displacement, and assessing the growing divide between legality and
legitimacy in world politics. In demonstrating how expectations of
legitimacy in governance structures and processes have become more
pronounced, the book ultimately exposes the limitations in the
transformative potential of the liberal international order.
Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on critical world order
challenges, this wide-ranging book is an essential resource for
scholars of international relations, international law, political
theory, critical security studies, and migration studies. It will
also be of particular interest to practitioners working in
intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Combining theory with compelling case studies, this book examines
the globalizing world of democracy. Noted critical scholars Stephen
J. Rosow and Jim George argue that democracy must be understood not
as a unified concept but as a diversity of political responses to
specific conditions and political struggles. Doing so reveals how
democracy is taking multiple forms around the world in response to
neoliberal globalism and the increasing pace and complexity of
everyday life. The authors show how the current phase of
globalization is destabilizing the dominance of Western democracy
promotion as resisters challenge common understandings and forms of
democracy. Explaining the theory behind neoliberal globalization
and democracy promotion, they consider its impact and struggles
against it in South Africa, post-Soviet Russia, India, and
Venezuela and other "pink tide" states in Latin America. Rosow and
George also examine how digital communications networks, the
centralization of security, and the fluid movements of people and
ideas are destabilizing traditional democratic theories. At the
same time, they give rise to concepts of democracy that focus on
new forms of citizenship and democratic participation, a
cosmopolitan democratic constitutionalism, cross-boundary political
activism, and local and community-based economic and democratic
practices.
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This
doubleness informs this book. "Transforming" in "transforming
higher education" can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher
education is being transformed by the social and political
situation in which it is enmeshed. "Transforming" can also be read
as a gerund, implying the critical activity of changing the
university, as signaling a creative and political act of radical
possibility. The essays in this book address the transformation of
higher education and the transformative possibilities of its
current conditions. Only by viewing the university as a historical
construction can we assess the dangers and opportunities of the new
conditions of higher education, and chart a reasonable course for
the future. The essays in this book are critical of recent
developments in universities and higher education. Most of us come
from public universities, and all remain committed to a democratic
higher education that we see threatened by recent developments.
There is a danger that the combination of economic crisis, market
ideology, and global pressures will continue to structure the
debate about higher education in ways that freeze out the
transformative and politically critical possibilities of the
university. Part I of the book examines the historical
transformation of the university as it has changed into its current
form. Part II examines both the transformation of the university
into a neoliberal institution and makes the case for the more
political and radical idea of transforming the university in
opposition to how it has been transformed in recent years. Part III
offers a number of studies aimed at illuminating possibilities for
transforming the university in a more progressive, democratic
direction.
Combining theory with compelling case studies, this book examines
the globalizing world of democracy. Noted critical scholars Stephen
J. Rosow and Jim George argue that democracy must be understood not
as a unified concept but as a diversity of political responses to
specific conditions and political struggles. Doing so reveals how
democracy is taking multiple forms around the world in response to
neoliberal globalism and the increasing pace and complexity of
everyday life. The authors show how the current phase of
globalization is destabilizing the dominance of Western democracy
promotion as resisters challenge common understandings and forms of
democracy. Explaining the theory behind neoliberal globalization
and democracy promotion, they consider its impact and struggles
against it in South Africa, post-Soviet Russia, India, and
Venezuela and other "pink tide" states in Latin America. Rosow and
George also examine how digital communications networks, the
centralization of security, and the fluid movements of people and
ideas are destabilizing traditional democratic theories. At the
same time, they give rise to concepts of democracy that focus on
new forms of citizenship and democratic participation, a
cosmopolitan democratic constitutionalism, cross-boundary political
activism, and local and community-based economic and democratic
practices.
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