to be published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

for an earlier statement of part of the argument, see The State of Globalization

Contents

Preface

Part I CRITIQUE

Chapter 1 Globality: historical change in our time

• Three narratives of transition
• Conceptualizing change
• The meaning of global
• Fallacies of the globalization debate
• Grasping the revolution
• Key problems in the theory of globality
• Method, argument and structure

Chapter 2 Critique of national and international relations

• The problem of nationality and internationality
• Sovereignty and universality
• Capitalist modernity
• State, geopolitics and industrial society
• Culture, nationality and ethnicity
• Internationality and anarchy
• War and society
• Revolution and civil war
• Conclusions

Chapter 3 Intimations of globality: Hamlet without the Prince

• Social science as stamp collecting
• Crisis of ancien régime social science
• Limits of the international
• Economism and sociologism in global theory
• Transformations of internationality

Part II HISTORY AND AGENCY

Chapter 4 Internationalized bloc-states and democratic revolution

• Contradictions of the high national-international era
• Dialectics of total war
• Global institutions and consciousness
• Cold War and the integrated bloc-state
• Democratic revolution, Cold War and war
• Towards globalism
• The real 'revolution in the revolution'

Chapter 5 Global revolution, counterrevolution and genocidal war

• Global revolution and counter-revolution, 1989-91
• Worldwide scope of revolutionary change
• Global-democratic revolution and state formation

Part III STATE

Chapter 6 State in globality

• Globality and social categories
• The singularity of state
• Defining state in plurality
• Global state: singularity and plurality

Chapter 7 Relations and forms of global state power

• Centres of power, borders of violence
• The global-Western state conglomerate
• Quasi-imperial nation-states
• New, proto- and quasi-states
• The global layer of state
• State relations and ‘intervention’ in globality
• Changing conditions of sovereignty
• National and international in the global era

Table. Characteristics of the Western and the major non-Western states.

Map. Worldwide state power at the end of the twentieth century, by military expenditure.

Diagram. Proportions of gross domestic product devoted to military expenditure.

Chapter 8 Contradictions of state power: towards the global state?

• Crises of the quasi-imperial nation-states
• Dilemmas of new states
• Evolving structure of the Western state
• The superpower, the Union and the future of the West
• Towards a global state?
• Limits and contradictions of global state power

CONCLUSION

Chapter 9 Politics of the unfinished revolution

• Old politics and new
• Completing the global revolution

Bibliography

Index