Politics and Globalisation

<p>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. <em>Politics and Globalisation</em> suggests that globalisation is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation: <br> · the extent and political significance of globalising changes in economy and society · how and how far the relations and forms of nation-state organisation are transformed <br> · whether the given concepts and methods of political science as a discipline can be applied to global and regional politics and whether they require radical reformulation; <br> · the role and significance of ethical questions in global change <br> · whether global change is constituted by or denies radical political agency </p>