Planetary Politics

Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

Contributions by Alba Alexander, Ulrich Beck University of Munich, Carl Boggs National University; author of The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemma, Drucilla Cornell, Irene Gendzier, Sam Gindin, Philip Green, David Held, Dick Howard, Micheline Ishay, Kurt Jacobsen, Douglas Kellner UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democra, Leo Panitch, Manfred B. Steger Professor of Global Politics, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Karsten J. Struhl, Michael J. Thompson William Paterson University, Nadia Urbinati Edited by Stephen Eric Bronner Rutgers University

Publication date:

20 January 2005

Length of book:

248 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

236x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742541986

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, the terrible excesses, and the positive prospects in a decidedly new era marked by the transition from a corrosive interplay between nation-states to a burgeoning planetary politics. Bringing together the work of major scholars with national and international reputations, this exciting new work offers perspectives for dealing with the complexity of power in the planetary life of the new millennium.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Global Theater
Chapter 3 The Silence of Words and Political Dynamics in the World Risk Society
Chapter 4 Globalism and the Selling of Globalization
Chapter 5 National Culture, the Globalization of Communications, and the Bounded Political Community
Chapter 6 Globalization: A Contested Terrain
Part 7 Planetary Perils
Chapter 8 Terror and Politics
Chapter 9 The New Militarism: Imperial Overreach
Chapter 10 Unconcealed Empire: "The Awesome Thing America Is Becoming"
Part 11 Planetary Foreign Policy
Chapter 12 Anatomy of a Disaster: Class War, Iraq, and the Contours of American Foreign Policy
Chapter 13 The "Islam Industry" and U.S. Foreign Policy
Chapter 14 Multilateralism: For a New Political Enlightenment
Chapter 15 Chances for a Left Foreign Policy
Part 16 Cosmopolitan Hope
Chapter 17 The Two Faces of Globalization
Chapter 18 Is a Global Ethic Possible?
Chapter 19 Playing the Angel's Advocate: Human Rights, Global Realism, and the Politics of Intervention
Chapter 20 Human Rights in the Age of Empire

An important volume for both scholars and practitioners alike.