The transformation of political community
Subtitle: ethical foundations of the Post-Westphalian era
By: Andrew Linklater.
Publisher: Polity Press; Blackwell Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Citizenship.; Communities -- Political aspects.; International relations -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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.