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Debating Globalization
ISBN: 9780745635255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field. Published by Polity in association with openDemocracy, the book is notable not just for focusing on the pressing difficulties facing our world, but also on solutions. Rich and positive suggestions are made for reshaping globalization into a force that will work for humans everywhere.
In an extended analysis, David Held provides a robust critique of the present order and sets out his alternative vision. Building on... Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the fiel...
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Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9780745624464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.
The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlap...
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103,48 |
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Models of Democracy
ISBN: 9780745631462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.
This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of significant transformations in world politics, and a new chapter has been added on deliberative democracy which focuses not only on how citizen... The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching a...
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336,47 |
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Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities
ISBN: 9780745648354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicating its core principles and justifications, and examines the role many of these principles have played in the development of global politics, such as framing the human rights regime. The framework is then used to address some of the most pressing issues of our time: the crisis of financial markets, climate change and the fallout from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In each case, Held argues that realistic politics is exhausted, and that...
This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicati...
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Beyond Gridlock
ISBN: 9781509515714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in the face of deepening interdependence, rising multipolarity, and the growing complexity and fragmentation that characterise the global order. The Gridlock authors have now...It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the ... |
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Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
ISBN: 9780804726870 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Democracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet the future of democracy is increasingly uncertain. Key assumptions of democratic thinking and practice are being undermined by diverse sites of social economic power on the one hand, and by dense networks of regional and global interconnectedness on the other. States and societies are enmeshed in webs of international conditions and processes as never before. Democracy and the Global Order offers a highly original and systematic account of these issues. Part I assesses the traditional conceptions of democracy. Part II...
Democracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet the future of democracy is increasingly uncertain. Key assumptions of democratic t...
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Prospects for Democracy: North, South, East, West
ISBN: 9780804721929 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This comprehensive overview of democracy across the globe explores its nature and future through theoretical analyses and a wide-ranging set of case studies.
This comprehensive overview of democracy across the globe explores its nature and future through theoretical analyses and a wide-ranging set of case s...
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Introduction to Critical Theory : Horkheimer to Habermas
ISBN: 9780745607696 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.
Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in both political and academic circles. However, their ideas are frequently misunderstood. In this major work, now available from Polity Press, David Held presents a... The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movemen...
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Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780804754729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to major theories of democracy from classical Greece to the present, along with a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.
This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take into account significant transformations in world politics. A new chapter on deliberative democracy has been added, which focuses on how citizen participation can be increased in politics, and how that participation can become more informed. Like its predecessor, the third edition of Models of... In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to major theories of democracy from classical Greece to the present, alon...
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Political Theory and the Modern State
ISBN: 9780745606200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation, new forms of democratic ideal, citizenship and social movements, the direction of public policy and the fate of sovereignty in the modern global system. While analysing these topics, the author critically assesses the thought of many of those who have contributed decisively to political discussion. Among those whose works are discussed are classic...
This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the id...
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Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance
ISBN: 9780745630779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of globalization and suggest strategies for reconciling it with the interests and aspirations of the people in all regions of the world.
The contributors understand globalization not as a uniform process that should be praised or condemned in its entirety, but as a complex phenomenon that can and must be shaped and steered towards socially desirable goals.... In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integ...
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Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus
ISBN: 9780745633534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to the profound challenges of mass terrorism and political violence - alternatives which can better address the roots of these challenges and deliver political and social justice.
In order to grasp this alternative, the changing structure of the global order has to be understood. To this end,... In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics...
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Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9780745624457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.
The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlap...
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Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide
ISBN: 9780745639109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization - are these the right terms to describe the current global order?
The second edition of this highly successful book tests the claims of those who dismiss the continuing significance of globalization through a comprehensive assessment of contemporary global trends. In the aftermath of 9/11, and the war in Iraq, there has been much talk of the end of globalization. Held and McGrew argue that these... Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globa...
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The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order
ISBN: 9780415574518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, nationalism and identity, political thinking, and economic diversification and redistributive policymaking with empirical chapters studying specific aspects of reform and change:
This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in... |
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Political Theory and the Modern State: Essays on State, Power, and Democracy
ISBN: 9780804717496 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume, written in the main over the last five years, are concerned to map out the terms of discourse about the modern state and to offer an initial assessment of them. They examine, among other topics, the notion of the modern state, the efficacy of the concept of sovereignty, problems of power and legitimation, sources of political stability and crisis, and the future of democracy. In so doing, they provide an introduction to many of the central issues of modern politics and political thought.
The essays in this volume, written in the main over the last five years, are concerned to map out the terms of discourse about the modern state and to...
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Political Theory Today
ISBN: 9780804718981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is the proper subject matter for political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive overview of the central questions and debates in contemporary political thought and to offer guidelines for the reformulation of political theory made necessary by the philosophical and substantive problems it faces today. The twelve essays in this book examine some of the classic traditional questions of political theory: the nature of obligation, equality, liberty, the public, the private,...
What is the proper subject matter for political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key ratio...
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Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems
ISBN: 9780615910079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "As you read Culling, you experience George Held's deep and intimate relationship with nature. His intense gifts of observation, and ability to transform his subjects, create poems that breathe yet suspend time. This amazing book, with its ecstasy and despair, is a plaintive cry, a howl, and a call to action for all those who care about what remains of this fragile, endangered world. These poems are exquisite. They instantly seduce the reader. You will be captured by their skill, precise vision, emotional truth, and subtle humor." -- GLADYS HENDERSON, author of Eclipse of...
"As you read Culling, you experience George Held's deep and intimate relationship with nature. His intense gifts of observation, and ability to...
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Global Governance at Risk
ISBN: 9780745665252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have led to a build up of risks that is likely to provoke a more general crisis in our system of global governance if it cannot be made fairer, more effective and accountable.
In this book, nine leading scholars explore the fault lines and mounting challenges that are putting pressure on existing institutions, the ways in which we are currently attempting to manage them - or failing to -... Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation o...
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Global Governance at Risk
ISBN: 9780745665245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have led to a build up of risks that is likely to provoke a more general crisis in our system of global governance if it cannot be made fairer, more effective and accountable.
In this book, nine leading scholars explore the fault lines and mounting challenges that are putting pressure on existing institutions, the ways in which we are currently attempting to manage them - or failing to -... Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation o...
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