Description
This volume is a product of nearly a decade of research and an unusual confluence of interests.
In the mid-1980s David Held and Anthony McGrew had a number of extended conversations about the changing nature and form of established liberal democratic nation-states in the context of intensifying regional and global relations. The result was too often mutual incomprehension! As a student of political theory. David Held had tended to regard the world of regional and global relations as outside the sphere of political theory, while Anthony McGrew, as an international relations theorist, had tended to analyse domestic politics as a marginal element of the interstate system. Many excellent conversations and discussions revealed that neither position, as it stood, engaged sufficiently with the changing nature of politics in a more interconnected world and that the traditions and conceptual tools of both parties to the dialogue could very usefully be developed.
An application to the Economic and Social Research Council followed. At issue was an attempt to create a framework for an extended encounter between political theory and international relations focused on pressing issues related to the changing role of the modern state. In particular, the research set out to investigate the extent to which regionalization and globalization are transforming the nature of world order and the position of national sovereignty and autonomy within it.
The research was funded by the ESRC (award no. R000 23 3391) and we are extremely grateful for the opportunity this provided, as well as for the excellent research guidance that came from several anonymous referees.
ISBN:9780745614991
