World statehood : the future of world politics / Heikki Patomäki.
Patomäki, Heikki, author.
2023
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Title World statehood : the future of world politics / Heikki Patomäki.
Author Patomäki, Heikki, author.
ISBN 9783031323058 (electronic bk.)
303132305X (electronic bk.)
9783031323041
3031323041
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32305-8
Published Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-32305-8 doi
Call Number D31
Dewey Decimal Classification 327
Summary Developing a processual understanding of world statehood, this book combines history, political philosophy, explanatory social science, and critical-reflexive futures studies. While doing so, it poses essential questions about world political integration, especially (i) whether and to what degree elements of world statehood exist today, (ii) whether the development of further elements of world statehood in some stronger sense can be seen as a tendential direction of history, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state could be viable? The book is organised into three parts. The first part, "Cosmopolitical processes", explores whether world history as a whole is directed towards planetary integration, focusing on the emergence of cosmopolitanism, the world economy, and the peace problematic. The second part of the book, "Reflexive futures and agency", focuses on the contemporary 21st-century processes of world history in terms of how non-fixed pasts, changing contexts, and anticipations of the future interact. The author explains how certain rational directionality is compatible with the possibility of deglobalisation, disintegrative tendencies, and "gridlock" in global governance in the key areas of the economy, security, and environment. In the final part of the book, "World statehood and beyond", the author develops further the processual and open-ended account of the formation of interconnected elements of world statehood by discussing the cases of a global greenhouse gas tax and world parliament. He also analyses the feasibility of different paths towards global-scale integration and the potential for conflicts, divisions, and disintegration. This book is a must-read for students and scholars of political science, international relations, history, sociology, political philosophy, and futures studies interested in a better understanding of world statehood, world political integration, as well as the future of world politics.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 13, 2023).
Series World-systems evolution and global futures. 2522-0993
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Chapter 1. Introduction: the Future of World Politics
Part 1: Cosmo-political Processes
Chapter 2. Cosmological Sources of Critical Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 3. A Creation Myth and Origin Story Suitable to Our Globalised World? A Friendly Critique of the Big History Storyline About Our Place in Cosmos
Chapter 4. Overcoming Eurocentrism: a Universal History of the Industrial Revolution and the Peace Problematic
Chapter 5. Problems of Democratising Global Power Relations in the 21st Century: Time, Space and the Emancipatory Process
Part 2: Reflexive Futures and Agency
Chapter 6. How Will the Cold War End? Non-fixed Pasts, Reflexive Futures and the Transformation of the Temporality of Human Existence
Chapter 7. Resolving Problems and Overcoming Contradictions Through Global Law and Institutions: a Post-Deutschian Perspective
Chapter 8. On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the 21st Century: a Polanyian Double Movement?
Chapter 9. Transformative Agency: Towards a World Political Party
Part 3: World Statehood and Beyond
Chapter 10. Emergence of World Statehood: a Processual and Open-ended Account
Chapter 11. The Transformative Potential of Climate Change: Towards a Dynamic Global Tax
Chapter 12. Rethinking World Parliament: Beyond the Indeterminacy of International Law
Chapter 13. After World Statehood? Legitimation and Potential Conflicts in a World Political Community.

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