shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | November 19, 2009

Dave: IMG Finding John Irving: The Powells.com Interview



johnirving[Editor's note: The following is a reprint of our 2005 interview with John Irving, whose new novel, Last Night in Twisted River, has just come out... Continue »
  1. $19.60 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics #8: Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency

by Shaw Martin

Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics #8: Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 key intellectual and political contests in globalisation:

- 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

- 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;

- the role and significance of ethical questions in global change

- whether global change is constituted by, or denies, radical political agency

Synopsis:

The central aim of this book is to analyze whether (or not) the global constitutes a fundamental challenge to the social-scientific study of politics, including the structure of disciplines and the division of labor between them.

Description:

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

Product Details

ISBN:
9780415206983
Subtitle:
Knowledge, Ethics and Agency
Author:
Shaw Martin
Editor:
Shaw, Martin
Publisher:
Routledge
Location:
London
Subject:
International Relations
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Political science
Subject:
Globalization
Subject:
International Relations - General
Series:
Routledge advances in international relations and politics ;
Series Volume:
8
Publication Date:
October 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
9.26x6.30x.79 in. 1.28 lbs.

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.