Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency

240 Pages·1999·3.23 MB·English

by  Martin Shaw

POLITICS AND GLOBALISATION
Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by
technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined
the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political
institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as ‘undermined’ by
globalisation, or needing to ‘respond’ to it.
This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked in our
understanding of politics. Politics and Globalisation suggests that globalisation
is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted.
The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation:

(cid:127) the extent and political significance of globalising changes in economy
and society
(cid:127) how and how far the relations and forms of nation-state organisation
are transformed
(cid:127) whether the given concepts and methods of political science as a
discipline can be applied to global and regional politics, or whether
they require radical reformulation
(cid:127) the role and significance of ethical questions in global change
(cid:127) whether global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political
agency.
Politics and Globalisation brings together scholars in the fields of political
science and international relations. Revealing divergences over globalisation,
as well as common ground, between these two fields, this book addresses the
gaps in existing literature on the global challenge to politics.
Martin Shaw is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the
University of Sussex. His many previous publications include Dialectics of
War, Post Military Society, Global Society and International Relations, and
Civil Society and Media in Global Crises.
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ROUTLEDGE ADVANCES IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS AND POLITICS
1 FOREIGN POLICY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
France, Britain and Europe
Henrik Larsen
2 AGENCY, STRUCTURE AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
From ontology to empirical enquiry
Gil Friedman and Harvey Starr
3 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REGIONAL
CO-OPERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder and Kemal Kirisci
4 PEACE MAINTENANCE
The Evolution of International Political Authority
Jarat Chopra
5 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND HISTORICAL
SOCIOLOGY
Breaking down Boundaries
Stephen Hobden
6 EQUIVALENCE IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Edited by Jan W.van Deth
7 THE POLITICS OF CENTRAL BANKS
Robert Elgie and Helen Thompson
8 POLITICS AND GLOBALISATION
Edited by Martin Shaw
9 HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Thomas W.Smith
10 IDEALISM AND REALISM IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
Robert M.A.Crawford
POLITICS AND
GLOBALISATION
Knowledge, ethics and agency
Edited by Martin Shaw
London and New York
First published 1999
by Routledge
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© 1999 Martin Shaw for selection and editorial matter
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CONTENTS
List of figures and tables vii
Notes on contributors viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
PART I
Contesting globalisation 7
1 Globalisation: prospects for a paradigm shift 9
JAN AART SCHOLTE
2 How novel is globalisation? 23
MICHAEL NICHOLSON
PART II
State and economy 35
3 The national economy in the contemporary global system 37
ANGUS CAMERON AND RONEN PALAN
4 Globalisation, regional integration and the state 55
FRANCIS MCGOWAN
PART III
Power and knowledge 71
5 Social movements and the challenge to power 73
NEIL STAMMERS
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CONTENTS
6 Comparison, cleavages and cycles: politics and the European Union 89
PAUL TAGGART
7 A political science response to a global politics agenda 99
STEPHANIE HOOPES
PART IV
Ethics and politics 111
8 Anti-politics and civil society in Central Europe 113
ZDENEK KAVAN
9 Global ethics and the implications of globalisation 127
CHRISTIEN VAN DEN ANKER
10 Globalising liberalism? Morality and legitimacy in a 143
liberal global order
FIONA ROBINSON
PART V
Agency and globality 157
11 Globality as a revolutionary transformation 159
MARTIN SHAW
12 Towards a political economy of agency in contemporary 174
international relations
JOHN MACLEAN
Bibliography 202
Index 226

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FIGURES AND TABLES

Figures
5.1 The dual faces of social movements 79
5.2 Power and the dual faces of social movements 82
5.3 The potential ‘progressive’ role of ‘radical currents’ and
‘critical social movements’ in the reconstruction of global
social relations 86
Tables
3.1 44

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Martin Shaw is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the
University of Sussex. His books include Post-Military Society (1991), Global
Society and International Relations (1994) and Civil Society and Media in
Global Crises (1996).
Jan Aart Scholte is Reader in International Studies at the University of
Warwick, and was formerly at Sussex University. He has published The
International Relations of Social Change (1993).
Michael Nicholson is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the
University of Sussex. His books include Rationality and the Analysis of
International Conflict (1992) and Causes and Consequences in International
Relations (1996).
Angus Cameron, a former coordinator of the Review of International Political
Economy, is a Research Officer in the Department of Geography at the
University of Durham, and is completing a thesis at the University of Sussex.
Ronen Palan is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of
Sussex and an editor of the Review of International Political Economy. He is
the author (with Jason Abbott) of State Strategies in the Global Political
Economy (1996).
Francis McGowan is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex and
author of The Struggle for Power in Europe (1993), and editor of European
energy policy in a changing environment (1996).
Neil Stammers is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex and author
of Civil Liberties in Britain During the Second World War (1983). He has
written recently on human rights in Political Studies and Human Rights
Quarterly.
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Taggart is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex and author
of The New Populism and the New Politics (1996).
Stephanie Hoopes was a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex until
1999. She is the author of Privatisation, Public Choice and International
Forces (1996).
Zdenek Kavan is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of
Sussex. He co-edited (with Mary Kaldor and Barbara Einhorn) Citizenship
and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe (1996).
Christien van den Anker is a Lecturer in International Relations at the
University of Sussex. She is preparing her thesis on Global Justice for
publication.
Fiona Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton
University, Canada, and was formerly a Lecturer in International Relations
at the University of Sussex; she is the author of Globalizing Care: Ethics,
Feminist Theory and International Relations (1999).
John MacLean is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University
of Sussex. He has written on Marxism, Critical Theory and international
relations in Millenium and various edited volumes.
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