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“danilo zolo”

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  • Cosmopolis

    Prospects for World Government

    by Danilo Zolo ...
    This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis - that is, the idea of world or 'global' government. In recent years this idea has been put forward as a way of averting the threat of war and international disorder, and as a way of avoiding the destruction of the planet. Proponents of this idea call for a radical reform of the United Nations which aims to legitimize this ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Victors' Justice

    From Nuremberg to Baghdad

    by Danilo Zolo ...
    Translated by M. W. Weir ...
    Victors’ Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, juridical precision and philosophical analysis. Zolo’s key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Democracy and Complexity

    A Realist Approach

    by Danilo Zolo ...
    This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the Western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions of political theory.Zolo maintains that, as modern societies become more complex and more involved ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by James Swenson ...
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    étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently written analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Development of Political Science

    A Comparative Survey

    Edited by David Easton, Luigi Graziano, John Gunnell ...
    In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international perspective.Offering a wide-ranging account of the development of the subject and its dissemination across national borders and cultural divides, the book begins ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Multitude

    War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Habermas

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Between Facts and Norms

    Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy. ... Read more

    $28.00 USD