Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

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. This Book Brings Together For The First Time The Whole Range Of Established And Alternative Voices On Global Civil Society, Both Congratulatory And Critical, To Set A Marker For The State Of The Debate About Global Civil Society Today. This Book Will Be Invaluable For Students And Researchers In The Fields Of International Politics, Democratisation And Civil Society.--jacket. Introduction : Global Civil Society And The Future Of World Politics / Gideon Baker And David Chandler -- 1. Global Civil Society : Analytical Category Or Normative Concept? / Alejandro Colas -- 2. Cosmocracy And Global Civil Society / John Keane -- 3. The Demoralised Subject Of Global Civil Society / Vanessa Pupavac -- 4. The Changing Role Of Global Civil Society / Richard Falk -- 5. Contextualising The 'anti-capitalism' Movement In Global Civil Society / James Heartfield -- 6. The Idea Of Global Civil Society / Mary Kaldor -- 7. Saying Global Civil Society With Rights / Gideon Baker -- 8. Global Civil Society : Thinking Politics And Progress / Kimberly Hutchings -- 9. Constructing Global Civil Society / David Chandler. Edited By Gideon Baker And David Chandler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Contributors......Page 10 Introduction......Page 13 PART 1 Global civil society-contesting current trends......Page 25 1 Global civil society: analytical category or normative concept?......Page 26 2 Cosmocracy and global civil society......Page 41 3 The demoralised subject of global civil society......Page 57 4 The changing role of global civil society......Page 71 5 Contextualising the ‘anti-capitalism’ movement in global civil society......Page 84 PART 2 Global civil society-contesting future possibilities......Page 98 6 The idea of global civil society......Page 99 7 Saying global civil society with rights......Page 108 8 Global civil society: thinking politics and progress......Page 122 9 Constructing global civil society......Page 138 10 Global civil society and global governmentality: resistance, reform or resignation?......Page 157 11 Global civil society as politics of faith......Page 171 Index......Page 185 For an increasing number of commentators, global civil society represents nothing less than the outline of a future world political order within which states will no longer constitute the seat of sovereignty, a status first bestowed on them by the Treaty of Westphalia in Europe (1648) and subsequently exported around the globe.