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Martin Shaw 

Theory of the Global State

Globality as Unfinished Revolution

to be published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

for an earlier statement of part of the argument, see The State of Globalization

Contents

Preface

Part I CRITIQUE

Chapter 1 Globality: historical change in our time

  • Three narratives of transition
  • Conceptualizing change
  • The meaning of global
  • Fallacies of the globalization debate
  • Grasping the revolution
  • Key problems in the theory of globality
  • Method, argument and structure

Chapter 2 Critique of national and international relations

  • The problem of nationality and internationality
  • Sovereignty and universality
  • Capitalist modernity
  • State, geopolitics and industrial society
  • Culture, nationality and ethnicity
  • Internationality and anarchy
  • War and society
  • Revolution and civil war
  • Conclusions

Chapter 3 Intimations of globality: Hamlet without the Prince

  • Social science as stamp collecting
  • Crisis of ancien régime social science
  • Limits of the international
  • Economism and sociologism in global theory
  • Transformations of internationality

Part II HISTORY AND AGENCY

Chapter 4 Internationalized bloc-states and democratic revolution

  • Contradictions of the high national-international era
  • Dialectics of total war
  • Global institutions and consciousness
  • Cold War and the integrated bloc-state
  • Democratic revolution, Cold War and war
  • Towards globalism
  • The real 'revolution in the revolution'

Chapter 5 Global revolution, counterrevolution and genocidal war

  • Global revolution and counter-revolution, 1989-91
  • Worldwide scope of revolutionary change
  • Global-democratic revolution and state formation

Part III STATE

Chapter 6 State in globality

  • Globality and social categories
  • The singularity of state
  • Defining state in plurality
  • Global state: singularity and plurality

Chapter 7 Relations and forms of global state power

  • Centres of power, borders of violence
  • The global-Western state conglomerate
  • Quasi-imperial nation-states
  • New, proto- and quasi-states
  • The global layer of state
  • State relations and ‘intervention’ in globality
  • Changing conditions of sovereignty
  • National and international in the global era

Table. Characteristics of the Western and the major non-Western states.

Map. Worldwide state power at the end of the twentieth century, by military expenditure.

Diagram. Proportions of gross domestic product devoted to military expenditure.

Chapter 8 Contradictions of state power: towards the global state?

  • Crises of the quasi-imperial nation-states
  • Dilemmas of new states
  • Evolving structure of the Western state
  • The superpower, the Union and the future of the West
  • Towards a global state?
  • Limits and contradictions of global state power

CONCLUSION

Chapter 9 Politics of the unfinished revolution

  • Old politics and new
  • Completing the global revolution

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