After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century

by Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Overview

After Authority offers an overview of the evolving international political "revolution," a historical perspective based on Lipschutz's writings over the years. It also examines the prospects for war and peace in the twenty-first century. During earlier "industrial revolutions," long-standing and apparently stable patterns of social behavior, economic exchange, and political authority came under challenge. Today, post World War Two institutions that were formed to create a peaceful, economically-prosperous world, are under severe challenge by globalization, liberalization, and social innovation. Old hierarchies of power and wealth have been undermined as people take advantage of new economic and political opportunities, and the resulting disruption of expectations leads to fear, uncertainty, instability, and violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791492628
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Series:	SUNY series in Global Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coauthor, with Judith Mayer, of Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Theory of Global Politics

2. The Worries of Nations

3. The Insecurity Dilemma

4. Arms and Affluence

5. Markets, the State,and War

6. The Social Contraction

7. The Princ(ipal)

8. Politics among People

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

In the second of what he thinks of a his security trilogy, Lipshutz (politics, U. of California-Santa Cruz) combines previously published and new material to offer a historical overview of what he calls the current evolving international political revolution. In the context of previous periods of rapid change, such as the industrial revolution, he examines how institutions erected after World War II to promote stability are under severe pressure from global capitalism, deregulation, and social innovation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"This is an important book—the first to my knowledge to examine a wide range of alleged threats, from eco-violence to 'ethnic' conflict, in a unified and conceptual framework that makes sense for the post–Cold War world. His insights on the state's disciplining role in a globalized world economy are powerful and well developed." — Ken Conca, author of Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil's Military-Industrial Complex

"After Authority forces ‘the reader to examine issues and explanations of war, peace, security, and international cooperation in a non-traditional way. It made me think." — Roger Coate, editor of the journal Global Governance

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