World state, nation states, or non-centralized institutions? : a vision of the future in politics / Victor Segesvary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segesvary, Victor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political geography.

State, The.

Citizenship.

Human territoriality.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Contents:

Global Framework: The Dialectics of Space and Place 1

Part 1 Land, Territory, and Nation-States

Chapter 1 Space, Place, and Territoriality: Basic Conceptual Variations 9

2. Space, Place, and Time 12

a. The Land 16

b. Homeland and Territoriality 17

c. Territory 19

Chapter 2 The Nation-State and Citizenship 21

1. Land and Territory in Non-Modern Societies 21

2. The Creation of Sovereign Nation-States 23

3. Democracy and the Nation-State 26

4. The Modern State and Modern Citizenship 28

5. Globalization and the Nation-State 33

Chapter 3 Legal Aspects of the Relationship Between Territory and the State 41

1. The Role of Territory in Western Civilization 42

a. The Constitution of Limits and Frontiers 42

b. The Role of Bureaucracies and the Reification of Space 48

2. The Role of Territory in the non-Western World 49

Chapter 4 The Multinational State and Human Rights 53

1. Minorities, Autonomy, Exclusion, and Segregation 53

2. The Human Rights Regime: Its Necessity and Its Limits 63

Chapter 5 The State and Civil Society 69

1. The Concept of Civil Society 69

2. Power and Society 73

3. Deformations of the Concept of Civil Society 76

4. Civil Society in Other Civilizations 78

5. Civilizational Pluralism and Civil Society 80

Part 2 Options for the Institutional Re-Ordering of the Political Sphere

Chapter 6 The Illusion of the World State: An Unrealizable Option 87

1. Demographic Evolution 88

2. The Evolution of Society 90

3. The Organization of the Public Sphere 92

4. The Globalization of Economic Activities 94

5. International Security 96

6. The Nascent Global Culture 98

7. Normative Universalism and Cosmopolitan Citizenship 100

8. The World State and Civilizational Pluralism: A Conclusion 102

Chapter 7 A Non-Centralized and Democratic Political Order: A Utopic Vision? 105

1. The New World of Political Entities in the Future 106

a. Constituting Elements of the New Entities 107

b. Co-ordination Between Political Entities at Regional or Sub-Regional Levels 110

2. Governance in the New Political Entities 111

3. Legal Pluralism in a Fragmented Political Structure 116

4. Economic Policies and Management 117

5. Society: Equality and Solidarity 120

6. Planetary Coordination 121

a. Security and the Maintenance of Peace 122

b. Protection of the Environment and the Ecosystem 123

Chapter 8 The Information Society and Networking Political Communities 129

1. The Concept of Information Reconsidered 130

2. The Information Society and Virtual Reality 134

a. Description of the Information Society 134

b. The Information Society in Spatial and Temporal Perspective 137

3. The Information Society and Political Network Communities 142

4. Access to Information 146

5. Networking in Institutionalized Political Communities 148

Chapter 9 Technologies and Infrastructural Buildup 151

1. Organizational Environments as Virtual Public Spheres 152

2. Information and Communication Systems 154

3. Interactive Multimedia and Communication 159

a. Computer-Based Communication Networks 159

b. The Integrated Broadband Communication System 161

4. Cybercasting in Political-Institutional Networks 163

5. Cyberspace Governance and Rule-Making 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0761824979

OCLC:

51323025