Remapping Global Politics: History's Revenge and Future Shock (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 97)

This book seeks to redraw our mental maps of global politics and to explain the shifting and accelerating forces that are shaping those maps. The authors build on the concept of 'post-internationalism', focusing primarily on 'political space' and 'political identity' which, they argue, are the new frontiers of global political theory. They suggest that the state is losing capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is giving way to a more complex post-international universe characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. This book is the result of the authors' long-standing joint research into the nature and dynamics of global politics, a collaboration that has spanned over three decades. It makes an important contribution to the literatures on globalization and the future of international relations theory. Contents......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 15 1 Postinternational politics......Page 17 Conflicting stories of global politics: continuity and change, anarchy and order......Page 20 James Rosenau: from international to postinternational politics......Page 30 The hallmarks of postinternational theorizing......Page 33 History's revenge and future shock......Page 34 The decline of the territorial state......Page 37 Multiple identities and loyalties......Page 38 An expanding cast of important global actors......Page 41 The participation explosion......Page 43 Changing sources of security and insecurity......Page 44 The liberal bias of postinternational thinking......Page 45 Postinternational theory and history......Page 46 Conclusion: remapping global politics......Page 47 2 Theory and method......Page 51 The not-so-great debates......Page 52 Dissidence and relativism......Page 56 The constructivist turn: individuals, identities, and human autonomy......Page 65 The critical role of history......Page 69 Conclusion: retrieving reality......Page 79 3 Political space and time......Page 83 The parting of space and time......Page 84 Alternative conceptions of political space......Page 89 Political space and medieval Europe......Page 91 Political space and the Westphalian epoch......Page 95 From territoriality to postterritoriality......Page 97 The false distinctions between domestic, foreign, and comparative politics......Page 100 In the grip of habit......Page 104 Breaching the wall......Page 107 Comparative politics: Quo vadis?......Page 114 The fission and fusion of polities......Page 115 Conclusion: postinternational space and time......Page 121 4 States and other polities......Page 123 The state and social science......Page 126 Sovereignty......Page 130 The Westphalian State: a contingent outcome of place and time......Page 136 Moral communities in historical perspective......Page 146 The Westphalian State: no longer center stage......Page 150 Counter-arguments......Page 152 Conclusion: fragmented authority......Page 157 5 Identities in a postinternational world......Page 159 Nations, states, and nation-states......Page 160 A world of multiple identities......Page 164 The central role of culture......Page 168 Collective identities and new boundaries......Page 170 Changing identities and loyalties......Page 173 Manipulating myths and maps......Page 177 Policy cooperation and coordination......Page 179 Religion and the state......Page 183 Nesting and the challenge of new polities......Page 186 Identities and changing moral communities......Page 189 Conclusion: identity politics......Page 194 6 A postinternational world economy......Page 197 The international economic system......Page 198 Politics and markets in the postinternational era......Page 202 Transnational corporations and other economic institutions......Page 206 The implications of contemporary economic turbulence......Page 211 Historical patterns......Page 215 Globalization, nationalism, and the Korea case......Page 220 The contagion strikes Korea......Page 223 Anglo American values......Page 227 Korean values......Page 229 The normative implications of changing economic boundaries......Page 233 Conclusion: the economic globalization juggernaut continues?......Page 239 7 War in a postinternational world......Page 243 War and the emergence of the sovereign state......Page 246 War as an extension of politics......Page 252 Postinternational warfare......Page 257 High-technology warfare......Page 260 Some consequences of the new forms of warfare......Page 265 Future conflicts among different types of states......Page 270 Privatizing violence......Page 273 Soldiers and civilians......Page 276 Some normative implications of postinternational violence......Page 278 Conclusion: Clausewitz is history......Page 287 8 Technology and change......Page 289 The complexities of technological change......Page 291 The Internet and the erosion of state control......Page 299 The Internet, the market, and national economies......Page 300 Information gatekeepers......Page 302 Mobilization of political and social protest......Page 306 The erosion of national culture......Page 309 Dissemination of extremism and hate......Page 312 Societal vulnerability......Page 314 Criminal evasion......Page 315 Projecting soft power......Page 317 Cultural homogenization in heterogeneous societies......Page 319 The projection of force......Page 321 Technology: some normative observations......Page 322 Conclusion: a mixed verdict......Page 325 9 The future......Page 328 If so, then what?......Page 330 A disconcerting era......Page 336 The return of norms to global politics......Page 338 The democratic deficit......Page 340 Two normative stories about globalization and its effects......Page 345 The anti-globalization chronicle......Page 346 The proglobalization chronicle......Page 349 Conclusion: maps for an uncertain future......Page 354 Index......Page 359

Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach suggest that the state is losing its capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is being transformed into a more complex "post-international universe" characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. Ferguson and Mansbach, accordingly, revise the "maps" of global politics and explain the shifting and accelerating forces transforming them in an important contribution to the issues of globalization and the future of international relations theory.

Seeking to redraw our mental map of global politics and to explain the shifting and accelerating forces that are shaping those maps, this book builds on the concept of 'post-internationalism', focusing primarily on 'political space' and 'political identity' which are the new frontiers of global political theory