ISBN:
9780745632315
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (385 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Power in the Global Age : A New Global Political Economy
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This brilliant new book by one of Europe''s leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of ""golden handcuffs"" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain natio
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; The Hazy Power Space of Global Domestic Politics; Preface; 1: Introduction: New Critical Theory with Cosmopolitan Intent; 1.1 The meta-game of world politics; 1.2 The old game can no longer be played; 1.3 The counter-power of global civil society; 1.4 The transformation of the state; 1.5 Terrorist groups as new global actors; 1.6 The political power of perceived risks from industrialized civilization; 1.7 Who are the 'players'?; 1.8 Legitimacy undergoes a paradigm change; 1.9 Blind empiricism?
Description / Table of Contents:
1.10 New Critical Theory with cosmopolitan intent1.11 New Critical Theory of social inequalities; 2: Critique of the National Outlook; 2.1 The 'cosmopolitan' is at once a citizen of the 'cosmos' and a citizen of the 'polis'; 2.2 The public world is everything that is perceived as an irritating consequence of modern risk society's decisions; 2.3 The communitarian myth; 2.4 Methodological nationalism as a source of error; 3: Global Domestic Politics Changes the Rules: On the Breaching of Boundaries in Economics, Politics and Society; 3.1 The meta-power of global business
Description / Table of Contents:
Global business meta-power brings about a vulnerability to and dependence on violenceA pacifist and a cosmopolitan capitalism?; 3.2 The meta-power of global civil society; 3.3 Translegal domination; 3.4 The neo-liberal regime; 3.5 The dialectic of global and local issues, or the crisis of legitimation in nation-state politics; 3.6 The nationality trap; 3.7 The transnational surveillance and citadel state; 3.8 The cosmopolitan state; 3.9 The regionalization of cosmopolitan states; 3.10 The asymmetry of power between financial risks and risks associated with technologized civilization
Description / Table of Contents:
3.11 Seeing issues of risk as issues of power3.12 European and non-European constellations; 3.13 Cosmopolitan realism; 4: Power and Counter-Power in the Global Age: The Strategies of Capital; 4.1 The global politics of global business; Is capital self-legitimating?; Strategies of capital - an overview; 4.2 Strategies of capital between autarchy and preventive dominance; Autarchic strategies; Substitution strategies; Monopolization strategies; Strategies of preventive dominance; 5: State Strategies between Renationalization and Transnationalization; 5.1 Strategies of indispensability
Description / Table of Contents:
Strategies aimed at 'despatializing the state'Strategies of Grand Politics; 5.2 Strategies of irreplaceability; Strategies of transnational expertise; Strategies aimed at demonopolizing business rationality; 5.3 Strategies aimed at avoiding global market monopolies; 5.4 Strategies aimed at reducing competition between states; Strategies of state specialization; Hegemonic strategies; Strategies of transnationalization; 5.5 Strategies aimed at repoliticizing politics; Solving global problems globally; Strategies of multiple coalitions; Global risk strategies; Cosmopolitanizing the nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Global New Deal strategies
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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