The transformation of political community : ethical foundations of the Post-Westphalian era / Andrew Linklater.
| Author/creator | Linklater, Andrew |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©1998. |
| Description | vi, 263 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in international relations Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.) ^A221541 |
| Contents | 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 -- Universality, difference and the emancipatory project. Difference, self-determination and exclusion. The state, citizenship and humanity. Universalism, domination and otherness -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index. |
| LCCN | 97045264 |
| ISBN | 1570032572 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1570032580 (pbk.) |