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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451000903321

Titolo

Politics and globalisation [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, ethics, and agency / / edited by Martin Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

0-203-27995-6

1-280-03204-9

0-203-16540-3

1-134-62332-1

9786610032044

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

ShawMartin

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Globalization

Political science

International relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS

Sommario/riassunto

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 ke