The transformation of political community : ethical foundations of the Post-Westphalian era - Linklater, Andrew (Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1998)
Anarchy, community and critical international theory. The critique of neo-realism. The problem of community in international relations. The changing context of the modern state. Theorising the reconfiguration of political community -- Universality, difference and the emancipatory project. Difference, self-determination and exclusion. The state, citizenship and humanity. Universalism, domination and otherness -- The dialogic ethic and the transformation of political community. Limits on exclusion : membership, citizenship and global responsibilities. The dialogic community. Dialogue and discourse. Universalism revisited -- The modes of exclusion and the boundaries of community. The critical sociology of inclusion and exclusion. Social learning and international relations. Inclusion and exclusion in world civilisations. Towards a sociology of bounded communities -- State power, modernity and its potentials. Origins of the paradoxes of the modern state. On the ambiguities of state power. On the possibility of new state structures. The post-exclusionary state : answerability to universal rationales -- Community and citizenship in the Post-Westphalian era. Citizenship and its development. The problem of the exclusionary sovereign state. Beyond the Westphalian state. Citizenship in the Post-Westphalian state cosmopolitan citizenship.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index.
Keywords: Citizenship; Communities -- Political aspects; International relations -- Social aspects