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Martin Shaw

Global Society and International Relations: Sociological Concepts and Political Perspectives

Contents

Part I Introduction

1 The Theoretical Challenge of Global Society

Outline of the theoretical issues. The world as a single society; Integration in global society; Global culture, institutions and civil society; Sociology, international relations and global society.

Part II State Theory: The Relevance of Sociology

2 War and the Nation-State in Social Theory

Critique of Giddens' The Nation-State and Violence. The problem of war and the theory of the state; Giddens on war and the state; The Nation-State and Violence; Dialectics of total war.

3 State Theory and the Post-Cold War World

An early assessment of the significance of the historical change. The challenge to international relations theory; Sociology of the state and international relations; Social and international forces in the end of the Cold War; Social forces in post-Cold War international relations; Theoretical directions in the new global context.

Part III The Sociological Critique of International Relations

4 'There is No Such Thing as Society': Beyond the Individualism/Statism Dilemma in International Relations

Critique of Buzan, Booth and Giddens on security. A statist conception of security studies; Individualism: an inadequate basis for anti-statism; 'Societal security': a critique of Waever; A sociological approach to the problem of security; The sociology of international security.

5 The Limits of 'International Society'

Critique of the 'international society' school from the standpoint of global society. Ideological significance of 'international society'; The crisis of 'international society' thinking; International society and global society; From the ideology of states to global responsibility.

Part IV A New Global Politics

6 The New Politics of War

How the politics of war have changed in the post-Cold War era. The left and the politics of war; Socialism and the international state system; The consequences of the Cold War; The politics of the new world order; The Gulf and the new politics of war.

7 Towards Global Responsibility

The political implications of global perspective. The politics of global civil society; Global state institutions and their interventions; International intervention and society; Military intervention and the new wars; Towards global responsibility.