Liberty beyond neo-liberalism : a republican critique of liberal governance in a globalising ... age

Under the conditions of economic globalization, the prevailing liberal philosophy of governance is becoming increasingly problematic. Liberty Beyond Neo-Liberalism critiques three varieties of liberal engagement with the processes of globalization and their ability to temper the harmful effects of the process. Steven Slaughter proposes an alternate approach, global civic republicanism, which seeks to retrieve the civic and public character of the state in order to protect it from economic vulnerability and to constitute a resilient form of liberty. Steven Slaughter examines whether liberals can govern in a way that promotes liberty and moderates the rising social dislocation associated with economic globalization. The book evaluates the potential of various liberal arguments to attend to the harmful social aspects of economic globalization in three distinct stages. First, it examines the nature of economic globalization and the consequences of this process for liberal thought and governance. Second, it examines contemporary liberal approaches by critically examining a series of liberal texts that provide alternative schemes of governance. Third, in finding these contemporary liberal arguments insufficient to the task of a socially responsible regulation of economic globalization, the book concludes with an innovative scheme that stems from neo-roman republican political theory. This alternate approach is termed global civic republicanism and seeks to retrieve the public and civic character of the state in order to provide protection from economic vulnerability so as to constitute a resilient form of liberty. As such, the practical and scholarly resources that support the idea of the civic state are outlined and the legacy of republican ideas in world politics and the global context of association required for civic states to be possible are also examined. The aim of global civic republicanism is the republican inspired goal of non-domination in respect to the social impact of economic globalization

this Book Is Principally A Critique Of Liberal Conceptions Of Governance And Globalization From The Perspective Of The Neo-roman Conception Of Republicanism Elaborated By Such Figure As Quentin Skinner, Philip Petit, And Maurizio Viroli, Which In The Words Of Author Slaughter (international Relations, Deakin U., Australia) Offers A Pragmatic Approach To The Development Of The State That Enables Individual Liberty By An Institutional Design That Constrains Various Forms Of Domination By The State And By Powerful Private Interests In Society. The Three Parts Of His Book Seek To Answer, In Succession, The Questions Of The Character Of Economic Globalization And Its Relation To Liberal Thought And Practice, How Liberal Alternatives To Neo-liberalism Seek To Govern With The Condition Of Economic Globalization, And How Important The State Is To Governance That Endeavors To Both Promote Liberty And Moderate The Social Problems Of Economic Globalization. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

"Steven Slaughter examines whether liberals can govern in a way that promotes liberty and moderates the significant social dislocation associated with neo-liberalism and economic globalisation. This book critically evaluates the potential of various liberal arguments to adequately address the harmful social aspects of economic globalisation in three distinct stages. First, it examines the configuration of contemporary economic globalisation and the consequences of this process for liberal thought and governance. Second, it examines contemporary liberal approaches by critically examining a series of liberal texts that provide practical alternative schemes of governance. Third, in finding these contemporary liberal arguments insufficient to the task of a socially responsible regulation of economic globalisation, the book concludes with an innovative scheme that stems from neo-Roman republican political theory Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 A Critical Account of Globalisation....Pages 15-33 The Neo-liberal Infrastructure of Economic Globalisation....Pages 34-57 Liberalism and the Consequences of Economic Globalisation....Pages 58-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Extended Neo-liberalism: Governing Without the State....Pages 91-119 Contractual Nationalism: Governing Through the Nation-state....Pages 120-149 Cosmopolitan Governance: Building Global Democracy....Pages 150-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Global Civic Republicanism: Retrieving the State....Pages 183-218 Good Government in a Global Age....Pages 219-238 Back Matter....Pages 239-257