Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency

by Martin Shaw

Overview

Globalisation 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 globalisation, or needing to respond to it. This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked in our understanding of politics. Politics and Globalisation suggests that globalisation is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation:
· the extent and political significance of globalising changes in economy and society · how and how far the relations and forms of nation-state organisation 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
· whether global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political agency

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415206983
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/1999
Series:	Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics , #8
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Shaw is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. His many previous publications include Dialectics of War, Post Military Society, Global Society and International Relations, and Civil Society and Media in Global Crises.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Martin Shaw; Part 1 Contesting Globalisation; Chapter 1 Globalisation: Prospects for a Paradigm Shift, Jan Aart Scholte; Chapter 2 How Novel is Globalisation?, Michael Nicholson; Part 2 State and Economy; Chapter 3 The National Economy in the Contemporary Global System, Angus Cameron, Ronen Palan; Chapter 4 Globalisation, Regional Integration and the State, Francis McGowan; Part 3 Power and Knowledge; Chapter 5 Social Movements and the Challenge to Power, Neil Stammers; Chapter 6 Comparison, Cleavages and Cycles: Politics and the European Union, Paul Taggart; Chapter 7 A Political Science Response to a Global Politics Agenda, Stephanie Hoopes; Part 4 Ethics and Politics; Chapter 8 Anti-Politics and Civil Society in Central Europe, Zdenek Kavan; Chapter 9 Global Ethics and the Implications of Globalisation, Christien van den Anker; Chapter 10 Globalising Liberalism?, Fiona Robinson; Part 5 Agency and Globality; Chapter 11 Globality as a Revolutionary Transformation, Martin Shaw; Chapter 12 Towards a Political Economy of Agency in Contemporary International Relations, John MacLean;