Adam K. Webb

The World's Constitution (eBook, ePUB)

Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Some observers treat it as inevitable amid the urgency of global issues. They foresee a technocratic scaling up of the model of state authority that has prevailed at the national level for over two hundred years. Many critics and members of the public around the world look askance at that prospect. They rightly fear a moral vacuum of authority disconnected from the world's traditions, and a concentration of power that would be damaging to liberty or even dystopian in its upshot. Still, they often merely aim to stand athwart the scaling up of political institutions, rather than actively trying to shape an alternative that can seize the global horizon.

The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order offers a radically different vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. It draws on older resources in political thought, both Western and non-Western, to upend mainstream notions of statehood and sovereignty that have been taken for granted for too long in the modern era. It offers an original 'sphere pluralist' framework that can reconcile liberty, tradition, and cosmopolitanism. As a book rooted in the past but mindful of future constitutional and policy challenges, it bridges ideas and real-world implications, with insights that cut across a wide range of topics from migration and social welfare to personal law systems and channels of representation. It opens an exciting debate about global constitutional futures that is likely to become more salient over the next couple of generations.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040299449
• Artikelnr.: 72642307

Autorenporträt

Adam K Webb is Resident Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, an overseas campus of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Previously he taught at Harvard and Princeton and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His other books include Beyond the Global Culture War (Routledge, 2006), A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values (ISI Books, 2009), and Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction 1. Old Resources for a New Question 2. The Political
Honeycomb 3. Toward a Global Space 4. The Economic Constitution 5. Legal
Pluralism 6. The Public Legal Order 7. The State Constitution 8. A
Metaconstitutional Settlement. Conclusion