Theory of the Global
State
Globality as Unfinished
Revolution
Cambridge
University Press, 2000
for an earlier statement of
part of the argument, see The State of Globalization
Contents
Preface
Part I CRITIQUE
Chapter 1 Globality:
historical change in our time
- Three narratives of
transition
- Conceptualizing change
- The meaning of global
- Fallacies of the
globalization debate
- Grasping the revolution
- Key problems in the
theory of globality
- Method, argument and
structure
Chapter 2 Critique of
national and international relations
- The problem of
nationality and internationality
- Sovereignty and
universality
- Capitalist modernity
- State, geopolitics and
industrial society
- Culture, nationality and
ethnicity
- Internationality and
anarchy
- War and society
- Revolution and civil war
- Conclusions
Chapter 3 Intimations of
globality: Hamlet without the Prince
- Social science as stamp
collecting
- Crisis of ancien
régime social science
- Limits of the
international
- Economism and
sociologism in global theory
- Transformations of
internationality
Part II HISTORY AND AGENCY
Chapter 4 Internationalized
bloc-states and democratic revolution
- Contradictions of the
high national-international era
- Dialectics of total war
- Global institutions and
consciousness
- Cold War and the
integrated bloc-state
- Democratic revolution,
Cold War and war
- Towards globalism
- The real 'revolution in
the revolution'
Chapter 5 Global revolution,
counterrevolution and genocidal war
- Global revolution and
counter-revolution, 1989-91
- Worldwide scope of
revolutionary change
- Global-democratic
revolution and state formation
Part III STATE
Chapter 6 State in globality
- Globality and social
categories
- The singularity of state
- Defining state in
plurality
- Global state:
singularity and plurality
Chapter 7 Relations and forms
of global state power
- Centres of power,
borders of violence
- The global-Western state
conglomerate
- Quasi-imperial
nation-states
- New, proto- and
quasi-states
- The global layer of
state
- State relations and
‘intervention’ in globality
- Changing conditions of
sovereignty
- National and
international in the global era
Table. Characteristics of the
Western and the major non-Western states.
Map. Worldwide state power at
the end of the twentieth century, by military expenditure.
Diagram. Proportions of gross
domestic product devoted to military expenditure.
Chapter 8 Contradictions of
state power: towards the global state?
- Crises of the
quasi-imperial nation-states
- Dilemmas of new states
- Evolving structure of
the Western state
- The superpower, the
Union and the future of the West
- Towards a global state?
- Limits and
contradictions of global state power
CONCLUSION
Chapter 9 Politics of the
unfinished revolution
- Old politics and new
- Completing the global
revolution
Bibliography
Index