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  • ISBN 9780415429788
  • Weight: 172g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2006
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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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Gideon Baker is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Salford. He is the author of Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices (also published by Routledge). David Chandler is a senior lecturer in International Relations at The Centre for the Study of Democracy, The University of Westminster. He is the author of Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations; From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention; and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton.