Governing the Global Polity Practice, Mentality, Rationality |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-472-07093-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $89.95 |
Book Description:
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Drawing on literatures on state formation and social theory, and through a series of case studies, Neumann and Sending demonstrate that the growing importance of NGOs and international organizations tends to increase the power of states, because states are able to draw on them indirectly in the effort to uphold social order. They conclude that the power of states not only depends on the predominance of the states-based system in global politics, but ultimately rests on the individual...
More DescriptionDrawing on literatures on state formation and social theory, and through a series of case studies, Neumann and Sending demonstrate that the growing importance of NGOs and international organizations tends to increase the power of states, because states are able to draw on them indirectly in the effort to uphold social order. They conclude that the power of states not only depends on the predominance of the states-based system in global politics, but ultimately rests on the individual states' social power.