The transformation of political community
Subtitle: ethical foundations of the Post-Westphalian era
By: Andrew Linklater.
Series: Studies in international relations; Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Citizenship.; Community -- Political aspects.; International relations -- Social aspects.
Description: Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders. In this book, Andrew Linklater claims that globalization, the pacification of core areas of the world economy and ethnic revolt challenge these traditional practices. As a result, new forms of political community and citizenship have become possible.

The Transformation of Political Community will be of interest to students and academics in international relations, politics and sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Anarchy, community and critical international theory. The critique of neo-realism. The problem of community in international relations. The changing context of the modern state. Theorising the reconfiguration of political community; title: Universality, difference and the emancipatory project. Difference, self-determination and exclusion. The state, citizenship and humanity. Universalism, domination and otherness; title: The dialogic ethic and the transformation of political community. Limits on exclusion : membership, citizenship and global responsibilities. The dialogic community. Dialogue and discourse. Universalism revisited; title: The modes of exclusion and the  boundaries of community. The critical sociology of inclusion and exclusion. Social learning and international relations. Inclusion and exclusion in world civilisations. Towards a sociology of bounded communities; title: State power, modernity and its potentials. Origins of the paradoxes of the modern state. On the ambiguities of state power. On the possibility of new state structures. The post-exclusionary state : answerability to universal rationales; title: Community and citizenship in the Post-Westphalian era. Citizenship and its development. The problem of the exclusionary sovereign state. Beyond the Westphalian state. Citizenship in the Post-Westphalian state cosmopolitan citizenship.