Power and Counter-power in the Age of Globalization

Author: Ulrich Beck
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: In his book Empire, Michael Hardt declared that globalization has irrevocably declined the sovereignty of the nation-state, forming a new global rule and structure – "Empire." Almost simultaneously, German sociologist Ulrich Beck argued for the necessity of the nation-state's transformation and proposed the concept of the "cosmopolitan state" as the new sovereign governing the power games of the globalized era. This book is a new work by Ulrich Beck. In it, the author discusses the transformation from submodernization to the second modernization from a unique perspective, examines the global power games among the world economy, nation-states, and citizen movements, analyzes the contradictions and challenges faced by the traditional concept of the nation-state in the age of globalization, and proposes how to break free from the nation-state model and develop the concept and theory of the state from a cosmopolitan perspective. Beck believes that the nation-state is an unfinished state and will be replaced by the cosmopolitan state.