Power in the Global Age A New Global Political Economy,9780745632315

Power in the Global Age A New Global Political Economy

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780745632315
ISBN10: 0745632319
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-10
Publisher(s): Polity
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Summary

This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain national autonomy, not least in relation to a highly mobile world economy. It is imperative that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - that national interests have necessarily to be pursued by national means - be replaced by the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The more cosmopolitan our political structures and activities, Beck suggests, the more successful they will be in promoting national interests, and the greater our individual power in this global age will be.

Author Biography

U.Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich


Translated by Kathleen Cross

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
x
The Hazy Power Space of Global Domestic Politics xi
Preface xiv
Introduction: New Critical Theory with Cosmopolitan Intent
1(34)
The meta-game of world politics
2(1)
The old game can no longer be played
3(3)
The counter-power of global civil society
6(2)
The transformation of the state
8(2)
Terrorist groups as new global actors
10(2)
The political power of perceived risks from industrialized civilization
12(2)
Who are the `players'?
14(2)
Legitimacy undergoes a paradigm change
16(4)
Blind empiricism?
20(2)
New Critical Theory with cosmopolitan intent
22(2)
New Critical Theory of social inequalities
24(11)
Critique of the National Outlook
35(16)
The `cosmopolitan' is at once a citizen of the `cosmos' and a citizen of the `polis'
35(2)
The public world is everything that is perceived as an irritating consequence of modern risk society's decisions
37(3)
The communitarian myth
40(3)
Methodological nationalism as a source of error
43(8)
Global Domestic Politics Changes the Rules: On the Breaching of Boundaries in Economics, Politics and Society
51(65)
The meta-power of global business
51(13)
Global business meta-power brings about a vulnerability to and dependence on violence
57(2)
A pacifist and a cosmopolitan capitalism?
59(5)
The meta-power of global civil society
64(7)
Translegal domination
71(6)
The neo-liberal regime
77(4)
The dialectic of global and local issues, or the crisis of legitimation in nation-state politics
81(4)
The nationality trap
85(3)
The transnational surveillance and citadel state
88(4)
The cosmopolitan state
92(4)
The regionalization of cosmopolitan states
96(1)
The asymmetry of power between financial risks and risks associated with technologized civilization
97(4)
Seeing issues of risk as issues of power
101(5)
European and non-European constellations
106(4)
Cosmopolitan realism
110(6)
Power and Counter-Power in the Global Age: The Strategies of Capital
116(50)
The global politics of global business
116(9)
Is capital self-legitimating?
118(3)
Strategies of capital -- an overview
121(4)
Strategies of capital between autarchy and preventive dominance
125(41)
Autarchic strategies
125(23)
Substitution strategies
148(6)
Monopolization strategies
154(3)
Strategies of preventive dominance
157(9)
State Strategies between Renationalization and Transnationalization
166(70)
Strategies of indispensability
170(9)
Strategies aimed at `despatializing the state'
173(2)
Strategies of Grand Politics
175(4)
Strategies of irreplaceability
179(5)
Strategies of transnational expertise
180(1)
Strategies aimed at demonopolizing business rationality
181(3)
Strategies aimed at avoiding global market monopolies
184(4)
Strategies aimed at reducing competition between states
188(23)
Strategies of state specialization
190(8)
Hegemonic strategies
198(3)
Strategies of transnationalization
201(10)
Strategies aimed at repoliticizing politics
211(6)
Solving global problems globally
212(1)
Strategies of multiple coalitions
213(1)
Global risk strategies
214(1)
Cosmopolitanizing the nation
215(1)
Global New Deal strategies
216(1)
Strategies aimed at cosmopolitanizing states
217(19)
Strategies aimed at political integration within and outside the nation-state
217(4)
Win-win strategies
221(1)
Strategies aimed at cosmopolitanizing the law
222(2)
Creativity is unleashed when the state enables diversity to flourish
224(1)
Regional cosmopolitanization
225(4)
Nationalism has shed its innocence
229(1)
Cosmopolitan Europe?
230(1)
Cosmopolitanism as a power multiplier
231(1)
Human rights as a strategy
232(4)
Strategies of Civil Society Movements
236(13)
Legitimatory capital and its non-convertibility
240(3)
Strategies of risk dramaturgy
243(1)
Strategies of democratization
244(2)
Strategies of cosmopolitanization
246(3)
Who Wins? On the Transformation of Concepts and Forms of the State and of Politics in the Second Modernity
249(31)
The end of the end of politics
250(2)
Man is a wolf to man: Thomas Hobbes revised for the world risk society
252(5)
Forms of the state in the second modernity
257(9)
The ethnic state
258(3)
The neo-liberal state
261(1)
Transnational states
262(1)
The pluralization of states
263(3)
The perception of global risks robs the utopia of the neo-liberal state of its persuasive power
266(2)
Both right and left: on the transformation of the concepts and forms of politics in the second modernity
268(8)
National world citizens' parties
269(1)
Pluralization of left and right
270(4)
The counter-power of the cosmopolitan left
274(2)
Searching for a lost imagination
276(4)
Which concept of politics is intended?
278(1)
What, then, is meant by the concept of theory?
278(2)
A Brief Funeral Oration at the Cradle of the Cosmopolitan Age
280(31)
Roots with wings: cosmopolitanism in relation to competing distinctions
281(4)
Universalism and cosmopolitanism
282(2)
Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism
284(1)
Resistance to globalization accelerates and legitimizes the same
285(3)
Globalization advances by virtue of a paradoxical alliance of its opponents
288(5)
Cosmopolitan despotism: humanity's threat to humanity takes the place of democracy
293(4)
Self-justification rules out the possibility of democracy
297(14)
Notes 311(18)
References and Bibliography 329(25)
Index 354

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