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Global civil society, contested futures, edited by Gideon Baker and David Chandler

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Global civil society

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edited by Gideon Baker and David Chandler

Routledge advances in international relations and global, 32

contested futures

'Global Civil Society' evaluates the claims that globalisation will lead to a redefining of politics on a world scale, & considers whether this is really a new phenomenon & what the future might hold for all of us if such a redefinition really comes to pass., 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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