Beck Power in the Global Age

A New Global Political Economy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9277-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkersthrows light on the global power games being played out betweenglobal business, nation states and movements rooted in civilsociety. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing natureof power in the global age and assesses the influence of theever-expanding counter-powers.
The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age ofglobal crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - thecreation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - isexactly what is needed in order to regain national autonomy, notleast in relation to a highly mobile world economy. It isimperative that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - thatnational interests have necessarily to be pursued by national means- be replaced by the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The morecosmopolitan our political structures and activities, Becksuggests, the more successful they will be in promoting nationalinterests, and the greater our individual power in this global agewill be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Ulrich

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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