Power in the Global Age: a New Global Political Economy 0745632300, 0745632319, 9780745694535, 9780745693606, 9780745632308, 9780745692777, 074569277X

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? 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. 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. 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. 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.

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