Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics, Number 8)

The central aim of this book is to analyze whether [or not] the global constitutes a fundamental challenge to the social-scientific study of politics, including the structure of disciplines and the division of labor between them. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures and tables......Page 8 Notes on contributors......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 Contesting globalisation......Page 18 Globalisation: prospects for a paradigm shift......Page 20 How novel is globalisation?......Page 34 State and economy......Page 46 The national economy in the contemporary global system......Page 48 Globalisation, regional integration and the state......Page 66 Power and knowledge......Page 82 Social movements and the challenge to power......Page 84 Comparison, cleavages and cycles: politics and the European Union......Page 100 A political science response to a global politics agenda......Page 110 Ethics and politics......Page 122 Anti-politics and civil society in Central Europe......Page 124 Global ethics and the implications of globalisation......Page 138 Globalising liberalism? Morality and legitimacy in a liberal global order......Page 154 Agency and globality......Page 168 Globality as a revolutionary transformation......Page 170 Towards a political economy of agency in contemporary international relations......Page 185 Bibliography......Page 213 Index......Page 237 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 Social Sciences Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 List of figures and tables 8 Notes on contributors 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 Contesting globalisation 18 Globalisation: prospects for a paradigm shift 20 How novel is globalisation? 34 State and economy 46 The national economy in the contemporary global system 48 Globalisation, regional integration and the state 66 Power and knowledge 82 Social movements and the challenge to power 84 Comparison, cleavages and cycles: politics and the European Union 100 A political science response to a global politics agenda 110 Ethics and politics 122 Anti-politics and civil society in Central Europe 124 Global ethics and the implications of globalisation 138 Globalising liberalism? Morality and legitimacy in a liberal global order 154 Agency and globality 168 Globality as a revolutionary transformation 170 Towards a political economy of agency in contemporary international relations 185 Bibliography 213 Index 237

the Central Aim Of This Book Is To Analyse Whether [or Not] The Global Constitutes A Fundamental Challenge To The Social-scientific Study Of Politics, Including The Structure Of Disciplines And The Division Of Labour Between Them.

Globalisation calls into question the adequacy of comparative politics and international relations as methods to understand the organisation and exercise of power in social life.