Theory of the Global State or Decolonization and African Society

Theory of the Global State: Globality As an Unfinished Revolution

Author: Martin Shaw

This ambitious book rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Focusing on two major new concepts--the unfinished global-democratic revolution and the global-Western state--Martin Shaw evaluates global change, considering the radical implications for social, political and international theory, and offering a fundamental critique of modern social thought and mainstream global theory. Required reading for sociology, politics and international relations, Theory of the Global State offers a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction: globality in historical perspective	1
Pt. I	Critique
2	Critique of national and international relations	25
3	Intimations of globality: Hamlet without the Prince	67
Pt. II	History and agency
4	Internationalized bloc-states and democratic revolution	101
5	Global revolution, counterrevolution and genocidal war	144
Pt. III	State
6	State in globality	173
7	Relations and forms of global state power	195
8	Contradictions of state power: towards the global state?	232
Pt. IV	Conclusion
9	Politics of the unfinished revolution	259
	References	271
	Index	287

Book review: Working for Change or Start up

Decolonization and African Society

Author: Frederick Cooper

This authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward African labor forces. He shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. In the end, Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.