Global Civil Society

Contested Futures

Gideon Baker, David Chandler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780415429788
• eBook ISBN: 9781134256860
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

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Global Civil Society

Contested Futures

Edited by Gideon Baker and David Chandler

First published 2005

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© 2005 Gideon Baker and David Chandler for selection and editorial matter; individual contributors for their contribution

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: global civil society and the future of world politics—GIDEON BAKER AND DAVID CHANDLER
• PART 1 Global civil society – contesting current trends
• PART 2 Global civil society – contesting future possibilities
• Index