Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Author(s): Stephen Eric Bronner (Editor), Alba Alexander (Contributor), Ulrich Beck (Contributor), Carl Boggs (Contributor), Drucilla Cornell (Contributor), Irene Gendzier (Contributor), Sam Gindin (Contributor), Philip Green (Contributor), David Held (Contributor), Dick Howard (Contributor), Micheline Ishay (Contributor), Kurt Jacobsen (Contributor), Douglas Kellner (Contributor), Leo Panitch (Contributor), Manfred B. Steger (Contributor), Karsten J. Struhl (Contributor), Michael J. Thompson (Contributor), Nadia Urbinati (Contributor)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 20 Jan. 2005
Language: English
Print length: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 0742541983
ISBN-13: 9780742541986
Book Description
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, the terrible excesses, and the positive prospects in a decidedly new era marked by the transition from a corrosive interplay between nation-states to a burgeoning planetary politics. Bringing together the work of major scholars with national and international reputations, this exciting new work offers perspectives for dealing with the complexity of power in the planetary life of the new millennium.
Editorial Reviews
Review
An important volume for both scholars and practitioners alike. ― Political Studies Review
[This book] presents an accessible and interesting group of essays that meets the Logos series’ aim of communicating bold ideas that appeal to a wide audience. One of the strengths of this collection is that Bronner has compiled a selection of essays written by authors from diverse academic backgrounds; this helps to communicate the message that the political, economic, and cultural cannot be considered apart from one another, and to bring a variety of perspectives to bear on globalization. . . . The collection offers highly accessible reflections on contemporary political issues. ―
International Affairs
About the Author
Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and as an advisor to the PBS television series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. He is the author of over 30 books and numerous articles on globalization, and social and political theory, including The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008); the award-winning Globalisms: Facing the Populist Challenge, 4th ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); and the bestselling Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 6th ed. (Oxford UP 2023).
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