Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy by Ulrich Beck

Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy by Ulrich Beck

By Ulrich Beck

This marvelous new ebook through one among Europe's major social thinkers throws gentle at the international strength video games being performed out among international enterprise, state states and routine rooted in civil society. Beck bargains an illuminating account of the altering nature of strength within the international age and assesses the effect of the ever-expanding counter-powers.

The writer places ahead the provocative thesis that during an age of world crises and dangers, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the construction of a dense community of transnational interdependencies - is strictly what's wanted with a view to regain nationwide autonomy, no longer least in terms of a hugely cellular international economic system. it truly is important that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - that nationwide pursuits have inevitably to be pursued by way of nationwide potential - get replaced by means of the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The extra cosmopolitan our political buildings and actions, Beck indicates, the extra profitable they are going to be in selling nationwide pursuits, and the larger our person energy during this international age could be.

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The world has become a dangerously unequal place – even Introduction 25 for the rich in the major cities of the West. Debt servicing alone accounts for $200 billion a year in currency flows from the South to the North. At the same time, flows of private capital towards the South shrank in 2001 for the fifth time in succession to settle at $100 billion below 1997 levels. 3 per cent to about 1 per cent. 2 billion people – nearly a fifth of the world’s population – have to manage on less than a dollar a day, state development aid has fallen again by 20 per cent since 1990.

To sum up these principles: the nation-state world order fragments global inequalities; national norms of equality exclude global inequalities; the intranational comparability of inequalities guarantees international incomparability; and the irrelevance of large-scale inequalities is predetermined. All these principles make it possible for powerful and rich nation-states to pass 30 Introduction on the risks entailed by their decisions to poor states, a practice stabilized not least by the fact that the methodological nationalism of the social sciences confirms and supports actions based on the national perspective.

The world has become a dangerously unequal place – even Introduction 25 for the rich in the major cities of the West. Debt servicing alone accounts for $200 billion a year in currency flows from the South to the North. At the same time, flows of private capital towards the South shrank in 2001 for the fifth time in succession to settle at $100 billion below 1997 levels. 3 per cent to about 1 per cent. 2 billion people – nearly a fifth of the world’s population – have to manage on less than a dollar a day, state development aid has fallen again by 20 per cent since 1990.

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