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Preface
Contents
1: Introduction: The Future of World Politics
The Basic Idea
Summary of the Contents of the Book
References
Part I: Cosmo-political Processes
2: Cosmological Sources of Critical Cosmopolitanism
Introduction
Aristotle vs. Cosmopolitans: Two Different Cognitive Perspectives
A Cosmic Perspective: The Identity of Human Beings Living on Planet Earth
Transformative Cosmopolitanism: The Rise of the Notion of a World State
The Reaction Against the Copernican Perspective: Nietzsche, etc.
Conclusion: Towards a New Cosmological Imaginary?
References
3: A Creation Myth and Origin Story Suitable to our Globalised World? A Friendly Critique of the Big History Storyline about our Place in Cosmos
Introduction
On the Narrative Dimension of Scientific Explanations and Future Scenarios
The Basic Mythologems of Contemporary Liberal-Capitalist Society
A Methodological Critique of the Cosmic Mythologeme of Meaninglessness and Death
An Alternative Mythologeme: The Power of Life and Culture
Analysing and Assessing the Big History Storyline
Conclusions
References
4: Overcoming Eurocentrism: Towards a Universal History of the Industrial Revolution and the Peace Problematic
Introduction: The European States-System and Modernity Are Not Unique
Learning from Counterfactual World Histories
A Universal History of Humanity in Terms of Stages
The Development of the Modern Peace Problematic
Overcoming the Problematic: The Concepts of Global Security Community and Democracy
Conclusions
References
5: Problems of Democratising Global Governance: Time, Space, and the Emancipatory Process
Introduction
The Model of Cosmopolitan Democracy
Space, Time, and Otherness in the Model of Cosmopolitan Democracy
A Critical Realist Interrogation Concerning the Split between Moral Reason and the World
Bringing Real Geo-history Back in: Time, Space, and the Process of Peaceful Democratic Emancipation
Space
Time
A Key Presupposition: A Pluralist Security Community
Conclusions
References
Part II: Reflexive Futures and Agency
6: How Will the Cold War End? Non-fixed Pasts, Reflexive Futures, and the Transformation of the Temporality of Human Existence
Introduction
On the Complexity of Time and Temporality
The Contingency of the Cold War and its End in 1989–1991
The Meaning of the Past Is Undetermined
The Temporality of Human Existence Is Changing
Conclusions
References
7: Resolving Problems and Overcoming Contradictions through Global Law and Institutions: A Post-Deutschian Perspective
Introduction
The Emergence of Common Problems
A Deeper Problem: Disintegrative Tendencies and Contradictions in Global Political Economy
The Problem of Fixed Identities and Hard Will: Deutsch and beyond
The Dialectic Among Three Logics of Identities in the Early Twenty-First Century
Reflexivity, Self-Other Relations, and the Ethical Circle of Non-violence
Overcoming Contradictions through Learning and Building Common Institutions
Conclusion: Reflexivity and the Ethos of Critical Responsiveness
Appendix: On the Role of Religion
References
8: On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century: A Polanyian Double Movement?
Introduction
Polanyi’s Historical Double Movement
The Return to the Market: A Puzzle to Polanyians
Towards a Better Explanation of the Market-revival
Constructing the Double Movement: The Problem of Agency
Overcoming Contradictions in Global Political Economy
Collective Learning Towards Holoreflexivity
Concluding Remarks
References
9: Transformative Agency: Towards a World Political Party
Introduction
Different Meanings of Modern Civil Society: Four Possibilities
The Emergence and Development of Global Civil Society
Ambiguities and Limits of Global Civil Society Activities
Predecessors of World Party and the Decline of Democracy Since 2000
Future-oriented Democratic Visions of Global Political Parties
DiEM25: A Seed Crystal?
Learning Lessons: A Sketch of a Possible Global Political Party
Concluding Remarks and Two Additional Issues
References
Part III: World Statehood and Beyond
10: Emergence of World Statehood: A Processual and Open-Ended Account
Introduction
Debates About the World State in the 1940s
Wendt’s Argument About the Inevitability of World State
A Critique of Wendt’s Account
Conclusion: A Processual and Open-ended Account of the Formation of World Statehood
References
11: The Transformative Potential of Responding to Climate Change: Towards a Dynamic Global Tax
Introduction
Characteristic Problems of Carbon Trading
The Clean Development Mechanism and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement: Global Carbon Markets?
An Alternative to Carbon Trading: A Greenhouse Gas Tax
The Case for a Global Keynesian Greenhouse Gas Tax
Conclusions
References
12: Rethinking World Parliament: Beyond the Indeterminacy of International Law
Introduction
The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA)
World Parliament: In a Search for a Third Way
The Indeterminacy of International Law
World Parliament: Beyond the Categories of Modern Liberal-Democratic States
A Feasible Process of Establishing a World Parliament
Conclusions
References
13: After World Statehood? Legitimation and Potential Conflicts in a World Political Community
Introduction
Materialist, Structuralist, and Functionalist Arguments for a World State
On the Elusive Nature of Overlapping Consensus and Public Opinion
On the Idea of a “Civilising Process”
Functional Differentiation, Institutions, and Ethical-Political Learning
Why Higher-level Identifications and Purposes are Normatively Better
Conflicts and the Potential Collapse of a World Political Community
Conclusions
References