Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Martin Shaw

by Martin Shaw

This ambitious study, first published in 2000, rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Martin Shaw argues that the deepest meaning of globality is the growing sense of worldwide human commonality as a practical social force, arising from political struggle not technological change. The book focuses upon two new the unfinished global-democratic revolution and the global-Western state. Shaw shows how an internationalized, post-imperial Western state conglomerate, symbiotically linked to global institutions, is increasingly consolidated amidst worldwide democratic upheavals against authoritarian, quasi-imperial non-Western states. This study explores the radical implications of these concepts for social, political and international theory, through a fundamental critique of modern 'national-international' social thought and dominant economistic versions of global theory. Required reading for sociology and politics as well as international relations, Theory of the Global State offers a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age.

Genres: Politics

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First published November 30, 2000

About the author

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Martin Shaw is a British sociologist of global politics, war, and genocide. He received a BA from the University of London in 1968 an a Ph.D. from the University of Hull in 1993.


Currently Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and the University of Sussex, and Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights at the University of Roehampton, London.