Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy

by Ulrich Beck

Book Overview

This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers develops a far-reaching analysis of the social, economic and political transformations of the modern age. For centuries the nation-state has provided the principal framework of power in the modern world and the basis of legitimate domination, but today this is changing. How should we conceptualize a world and a set of global dynamics in which the nation-state order is being increasingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745632319
• ISBN13: 9780745632315
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.7"