| ID | 118216 |
| Title Proper | Defending in defence of politics today |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Smith, Steven B |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | What are the threats to politics fifty years after the publication of Bernard Crick's classic In Defence of Politics? The chief danger lies in the forces of globalisation and the eclipse of the national state as the locus of political life. It is the hope of many in both Europe and the US that we might replace the basic structure of the sovereign state with a variety of postnational forms of organisation such as the UN or the EU. What are the forces behind these developments? Are we entering a world beyond politics increasingly administered by international law courts and tribunals no longer responsible to their national electorates? The possibility cannot be ruled out, but such a world, I suggest, would no longer be a political world. |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Quarterly Vol. 83, No.4; Oct-Dec 2012: p.669-676 |
| Journal Source | Political Quarterly Vol. 83, No.4; Oct-Dec 2012: p.669-676 |
| Key Words | Sovereignty ; Cosmopolitanism ; Patriotism ; Ethos ; Judgment ; Education |