Political Issues for the Twenty-First Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7546-1903-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Assembling accessible and informative essays on contemporary debates and future issues in politics, this rewarding volume focuses on political developments in UK, European and international issues, and modern theoretical debates and problems. Each essay establishes the historical context before providing a speculative analysis of possible future developments. The collection presents a range of challenging and provocative accounts that deal with some of the most delicate, complex and fundamental issues that affect people living in Western Europe in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowling, Mark

Morland, Dave

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction, Dave Morland and Mark Cowling. Theoretical Issues: Political philosophy without foundations and anti-foundational politics, John Gibbins; Capitalism in the raw (or how the death of socialism made anti-capitalists of us all), John Carter; Technologies, surveillance and totalitarianism, Dave Morland. UK Issues: New Labour, the third way and ideological politics, Andrew Shepherd; Northern Ireland: plenty of problems for the future, Mark Cowling; Regionalism: a response to globalization, Howard Elcock. European and Global Issues: The economics and politics of monetary union, Stephen James and Julian Gough; Economic and monetary union: implications for the European Union's global role, Charlotte Bretherton; NATO and the challenge of security in a new era, Andrew Cottey; Globalization and Third World poverty, Brian Vale; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Both at the University of Teesside, Dr Dave Morland is Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Dr Mark Cowling is a Reader in Criminology.