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Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism
Contributor(s): Cerny, Philip G. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199733708     ISBN-13: 9780199733705
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $43.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - General
- Political Science | Globalization
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 327.101
LCCN: 2009026458
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.10 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2010
 
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Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still presumes the following: in domestic affairs, individual states function as essentially unified entities, and
in international affairs, stable nation-states interact with each other. In this scholarship, the state lies at the center; it is what politics is all about. However, Philip Cerny contends that recent experience suggests another process at work: transnational neopluralism. In the old version of
pluralist theory, the state is less a cohesive and unified entity than a varyingly stable amalgam of competing and cross-cutting interest groups that surround and populate it. Cerny explains that contemporary world politics is subject to similar pressures from a wide variety of sub- and
supra-national actors, many of which are organized transnationally rather than nationally. In recent years, the ability of transnational governance bodies, NGOs, and transnational firms to shape world politics has steadily grown. Importantly, the rapidly growing transnational linkages among groups
and the emergence of increasingly influential, even powerful, cross-border interest and value groups is new. These processes are not replacing nation-states, but they are forging new transnational webs of power. States, he argues, are themselves increasingly trapped in these webs. After mapping out
the dynamics behind contemporary world politics, Cerny closes by prognosticating where this might all lead. Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that upends much of our received wisdom about how world politics works and offers us new
ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world.
 
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