Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society (Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742541991 ISBN 13: 9780742541993

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2005

Synopsis

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.

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742541991
• ISBN 13: 9780742541993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Stephen Eric Bronner