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Power in the Global Age Beck

Power in the Global Age By Beck

Power in the Global Age by Beck

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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.

Power in the Global Age Summary

Power in the Global Age by Beck

This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers develops a far-reaching analysis of the social, economic and political transformations of the modern age. For centuries the nation-state has provided the principal framework of power in the modern world and the basis of legitimate domination, but today this is changing. How should we conceptualize a world and a set of global dynamics in which the nation-state order is being increasingly undermined?

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Ulrich Beck is one of the most important social theorists of our time. In Power in the Global Age he provides an insightful and rigorous theoretical framework to analyze the new forms of power and counter-power in the global sphere. It shows the relevance of theory for understanding the major political conflicts that are reshaping our world. It will be mandatory reading in universities everywhere. -- Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles In this fascinating new book Ulrich Beck develops further a manifesto of, and for, a cosmopolitan world. Especially important is his attempt to decipher and characterize the architecture of cosmopolitan states and civil society. This major book may well do for 'cosmopolitan society' what Beck's earlier works did for deciphering the nature of 'risk society'. -- John Urry, Lancaster University

About Beck

U.Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich Translated by Kathleen Cross

Table of Contents

* Reflections on the rise of * right-wing populism in Europe * Foreword * Chapter I * Introduction: New Critical Theory with * cosmopolitan intent * Chapter II * Critique of the national outlook * Chapter III * Global domestic politics changes the rules: On the * breaching of boundaries in economics, politics and society * Chapter IV * Power and counter-power in the global age: * The strategies of capital * Chapter V * State strategies between renationalization * and transnationalization * Chapter VI * Strategies of civil society movements * Chapter VII * Who wins? On the transformation of concepts and forms * of the state and politics in the second modernity * Chapter VIII * Brief funeral oration at the cradle of the * cosmopolitan era * References

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NPB9780745632315
9780745632315
0745632319
Power in the Global Age by Beck
Beck
New
Paperback
Polity Press
20051223
352
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