Global Civil Society: Contested Futures

by Gideon Baker (Editor), David Chandler (Editor)

Overview

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134256860
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/23/2004
Series:	Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Gideon Baker is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Salford. He is the author of Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices (also published by Routledge). David Chandler is a senior lecturer in International Relations at The Centre for the Study of Democracy, The University of Westminster. He is the author of Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations; From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention; and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Gideon Baker, David Chandler; Part 1 Global Civil Society – Contesting Current Trends; Chapter 1 Global Civil Society, Alejandro Colás; Chapter 2 Cosmocracy and Global Civil Society, John Keane; Chapter 3, Vanessa Pupavac; Chapter 4 The Changing Role of Global Civil Society, Richard Falk; Chapter 5 Contextualising the ‘Anti-Capitalism’ Movement in global Civil Society, James Heartfield; Part 2 Global Civil Society – Contesting Future Possibilities; Chapter 6 The Idea of Global Civil Society, Mary Kaldor; Chapter 7, Gideon Baker; Chapter 8 Global Civil Society, Kimberly Hutchings; Chapter 9 Constructing Global Civil Society, David Chandler; Chapter 10 Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality, Ronnie D. Lipschutz; Chapter 11 Global Civil Society As Politics of Faith, Volker Heins;