The Globalization of Politics: The Changed Focus of Political Action in the Modern World

✍ Scribed by Evan Luard (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 208
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book examines the kind of action that needs to be taken by world bodies in fields such as the trafficing of drugs, international terrorism, world hunger and other pressing problems, and the type of political activity through which individuals can seek to influence them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Distribution of Political Power....Pages 1-17
The Safeguarding of Security....Pages 18-45
The Promotion of Welfare....Pages 46-70
The Protection of the Environment....Pages 71-97
The Protection of Human Rights....Pages 98-117
The Distribution of Economic Power....Pages 118-137
The Functional Institutions of World Society....Pages 138-162
The Political Institutions of World Society....Pages 163-188
Conclusions: A Global Polity....Pages 189-191
Back Matter....Pages 192-195

✦ Subjects

Social Structure, Social Inequality;International Relations;Globalization

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