Cosmopolitanism in a multipolar world
Subtitle: soft sovereignty in democratic regional powers
By: Johannes Plagemann, research fellow, Giga German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Series: International political theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781137488213
Subjects: Cosmopolitanism; Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Sovereignty; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Description: "Popular wisdom, international relations scholarship, and much of rising powers' foreign policy rhetoric contends that such powers comprise a conservative coalition united by the desire to protect the principle of national sovereignty against its erosion. However, the empirical analysis of three democratic rising and regional powers' understandings and practices of political sovereignty suggests otherwise. On the basis of empirical research in Brazil, India, and South Africa, this book presents a descriptive analysis of the transformation of sovereignty in non-western contexts since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the processes of change are most accurately captured by a novel ideal-type of 'soft sovereignty'. Soft sovereignty takes into account today's complex multi-polar order in a post-western world. Such a plural, embedded, and moderate cosmopolitanism is situated between globalism's demand for a world state and statism's defence of the status quo"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Glossary Of Acronyms; title: Introduction; title: PART I: COSMOPOLITANISM, SOVEREIGNTY AND MULTIPOLARITY; title: 1.1 Regional and Rising Powers in International Political Theory; title: 1.2 Cosmopolitanism; title: 1.3 Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and Practice Dependency; title: PART II: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY; title: 2.1 Sovereignty on the Subnational Level; title: 2.2 Sovereignty on the Transnational Level; title: 2.3 Sovereignty on the Supranational Level; title: PART III: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN BRAZIL; title: 3.1 Subnational Level; title: 3.2 Transnational Level; title: 3.2.1 A New Institutional Layer?; title: 3.2.2 Disillusionment and Consolidation; title: 3.3 Supranational Level; title: 3.3.1 Foreign Policy Thinking under Cardoso and Lula da Silva; title: 3.3.2 Regional Integration; title: 3.4 Brazil: Conclusion; title: PART IV: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN INDIA; title: 4.1 Subnational Level; title: 4.2 Transnational Level; title: 4.2.1 Participatory Experiments; title: 4.2.2 Changing Forms of Protest; title: 4.3 Supranational Level; title: 4.3.1 India's Foreign Policy Thinking and National Sovereignty; title: 4.3.2 Regional Integration; title: 4.4 India: Conclusion; title: PART V: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN SOUTH AFRICA; title: 5.1 Subnational Level; title: 5.2 Transnational Level; title: 5.2.1 Forms of Engagement: Winners and Losers; title: 5.2.2 Professionalism and Constituency Building in a Context of Fluidity; title: 5.3 Supranational Level; title: 5.3.1 South African Foreign Policy Thinking; title: 5.3.2 Regional Integration; title: 5.4 South Africa: Conclusion; title: PART VI: SOFT SOVEREIGNTY AND FACT-SENSITIVE COSMOPOLITANISM; title: 6.1 Soft Sovereignty And Complex Multipolarity; title: 6.2 Complex Multipolarity and Cosmopolitanism; title: 6.3 A Moderate, Plural, and Embedded Cosmopolitanism for a Complex and Multipolar World; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Appendix.