This new edition of Global Politics is certain to engage and stretch students. Edkins and Zefuss clearly know how to grab students’ attention and to inspire them to think and then rethink. Every chapter here, I’m wagering, will spark wonderful classroom discussions. Global Politics is smart, lively and gritty. Cynthia Enloe, author of Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered. If you thought the first edition was amazing, wait until you read this! Global Politics 2.0 is the most intellectually rewarding textbook in the field to-date. The revolutionary question-based approach now challenges, provokes, and inspires across an even wider range of issues in contemporary political life. This version of Edkins and Zehfuss, with its unrivalled line-up of world-leading scholars, sets the bar even higher—it is a must- read for students and lecturers alike. Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reader in International Security, University of Warwick, UK. Unlike the majority of IR manuals, this book does not try to domesticate the ways we learn and teach global politics. Instead of spoon-feeding students with theories and concepts, it invites students to think about the international by focusing on the very questions that drive them to study world politics. I wish a manual like this had been available back when I was an undergraduate student. Erica Simone A. Resende, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. This engaging text treats readers as intelligent adults, inviting them to apply their own observations and experiences to the issues it addresses. Long case examples illustrating concepts like nationalism (China), and democracy (Argentina) let readers see how the moving parts of theories operate in practice. The chapter on the financial crisis is accessible, incorporates several tiny case examples from Iceland to Occupy, and carefully distinguishes among the contributions of states and other actors to what is happening. No text covers everything but what is examined here invites readers to continue their investigations, and provides tools to do just that. Mary Ann Tetreault, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Trinity University, San Antonio TX. In my twelve years of teaching introduction-level courses in Globalization and IR, I have never seen a textbook come close to ‘Global Politics’. The book brings an unprecedented degree of attention to the challenge of balancing theoretical rigor with facility of access. Many books will recite ‘the theories’ but none will get your students to think so deeply about the questions of our time. Power, subjectivity, sovereignty, security, neoliberalism, it’s all here. This new edition adds fresh and relevant material addressing the Internet, global revolt, and the everyday politics of the ongoing financial crisis. Nicholas Kiersey, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Ohio University, USA. Global Politics: A New Introduction makes international politics and theorising accessible and intelligible for students. It gives equal weight to theoretical approaches and case studies, and the centrality of questions as a basis for inquiry is both engaging and unique. Christine Agius, Lecturer in Politics, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Global Politics offers students analysis of the most pressing issues of today: climate change, migration, economic upheaval, resistance, inequality, and conflict – while also placing contemporary global politics in the context of histories of colonialism, nationalism, capitalism and statehood. It is an invaluable resource in helping students think through complex concepts in new and accessible ways, giving them illustrative examples about foundational topics in global politics, from democracy, ethics and human rights, to political economy, and war and peace. Moving beyond conventional stories about the nature of international relations, Global Politics captures the richness of the study and practice of international affairs today. Alison Howell, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University (Newark), USA. GLOBAL POLITICS A NEW INTRODUCTION The second edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective. Completely revised and updated throughout, the second edition also offers additional chapters on key issues such as environmental politics, nationalism, the internet, democratization, colonialism, the financial crisis, political violence and human rights. Global Politics: • examines the most significant issues in global politics – from war, peacebuilding, terrorism, security, violence, nationalism and authority to poverty, development, postcolonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, ethnicity and what we can do to change the world; • offers chapters written to a common structure which is ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question, an illustrative example, general responses and broader issues; • integrates theory and practice throughout the text, by presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from a broad range of disciplines including international relations, political theory, postcolonial studies, sociology, geography, peace studies and development, this innovative textbook is essential reading for all students of global politics and international relations. Jenny Edkins is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. Maja Zehfuss is Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, UK. There is a Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/edkins/ containing substantial additional material and resources for instructors and students. Features include: • About the book: More information about the book, editors, contributors and the table of contents. • Sample chapters: Several complete chapters fully downloadable as PDFs. • Useful weblinks: Related websites suggested by contributors and organised by chapter. • Maps and tables: Fully downloadable maps and tables used within the book. Organised by chapter and ideal for use with PowerPoint slides. • Interactive library: A library of additional audio-visual material online suggested by the Publisher and organised by chapter. Updated regularly. • Journal articles for further reading: Links to further articles by the contributors on related issues. • Audio files: Downloadable audio files of interviews by the book’s editors with several of the contributors exploring the challenges and issues raised by the text. GLOBAL POLITICS A NEW INTRODUCTION Second edition Edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss First published 2008 This edition published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 selection and editorial matter, Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss; contributors, their contributions. The right of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Global politics: a new introduction/edited by Jenny Edkins & Maja Zehfuss. – 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Geopolitics. 2. World politics. I. Edkins, Jenny. II. Zehfuss, Maja. JC319.G595 2013 327—dc23 2012024065 ISBN: 978–0-415–68482–8 (hbk) ISBN: 978–0-415–68481–1 (pbk) ISBN: 978–0-203–07689–7 (ebk) Typeset in Galliard and Scala Sans by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK Contents Notes on contributors xvii Teaching with Global Politics: A New Introduction xxiii 1 Introduction 1 Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss THE QUESTION What does this introduction to global politics do? 1 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE How do we use illustrative examples? 4 GENERAL RESPONSES What sorts of responses might there be? 11 BROADER ISSUES What assumptions do we start from? 13 CONCLUSION 17 2 How do we begin to think about the world? 20 Véronique Pin-Fat THE QUESTION Thinking and language 20 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Thinking about torture: the ticking bomb scenario 22 GENERAL RESPONSES Thinking about ethics: two responses 27 BROADER ISSUES Thinking about thinking 31 CONCLUSION 37 3 What happens if we don’t take nature for granted? 39 Simon Dalby THE QUESTION From environment to biosphere 39 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Climate change 42 GENERAL RESPONSES How do we frame the issue in terms of global politics? 49 BROADER ISSUES Challenging carboniferous capitalism 52 CONCLUSION 56 4 Can we save the planet? 61 Carl Death THE QUESTION Environmental politics and sustainable development 61 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The World Summit in 2002 65 GENERAL RESPONSES Existing analyses of global environmental governance 74 BROADER ISSUES Post-ecologism and eco-governmentality 77 CONCLUSION 81 5 Who do we think we are? 85 Annick T. R. Wibben THE QUESTION Narratives and politics 85 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The US feminist movement 89 GENERAL RESPONSES How can we conceptualize identity? 95 BROADER ISSUES Do we need to identify with a group? 101 CONCLUSION 104 6 How do religious beliefs affect politics? 108 Peter Mandaville THE QUESTION The role of religion today 108 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Islamic states and movements 112 GENERAL RESPONSES Do religion and politics mix? 121 viii CONTENTS BROADER ISSUES Culture, fundamentalism and religious identities 125 CONCLUSION 129 7 Why do we obey? 132 Jenny Edkins THE QUESTION Obedience, resistance and force 132 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The revolutions of 1989 135 GENERAL RESPONSES Authority and legitimacy 141 BROADER ISSUES Thinking about power 146 CONCLUSION 151 8 How do we find out what’s going on in the world? 154 Debbie Lisle THE QUESTION The mediation of information 154 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Media bias: news representations of war 157 GENERAL RESPONSES The media, power and democracy 163 BROADER ISSUES How to read the media 169 CONCLUSION 173 9 How does the way we use the Internet make a difference? 176 M. I. Franklin THE QUESTION What is the Internet? 176 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The Arab Spring and Internet governance 180 GENERAL RESPONSES Regulation, censorship and rights 185 BROADER ISSUES Internet futures 191 CONCLUSION 196 CONTENTS ix 10 Why is people’s movement restricted? 200 Roxanne Lynn Doty THE QUESTION Border crossings 200 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The US–Mexico border and the immigration crisis 203 GENERAL RESPONSES Ideas of states and citizenship 209 BROADER ISSUES Cultural racism 213 CONCLUSION 216 11 Why is the world divided territorially? 220 Stuart Elden THE QUESTION Forms of political and geographical organisation 220 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The development of the European territorial state 226 GENERAL RESPONSES The emergence of territory 231 BROADER ISSUES Techniques and the future of the territorial state 237 CONCLUSION 241 12 How do people come to identify with nations? 245 Elena Barabantseva THE QUESTION National affiliations 245 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The margins of the Chinese nation 246 GENERAL RESPONSES Nationalism studies 255 BROADER ISSUES Transnationalism and hybridity 259 CONCLUSION 265 13 Does the nation-state work? 269 Michael J. Shapiro THE QUESTION States, nations and allegiance 269 x CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Worlds of unease within the nation-state 272 GENERAL RESPONSES Stories of coherent nationhood 276 BROADER ISSUES An alternative political imaginary 280 CONCLUSION 285 14 Is democracy a good idea? 289 Lucy Taylor THE QUESTION Democracy 289 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Democracy in Argentina 293 GENERAL RESPONSES Elections and equality 299 BROADER ISSUES Whose democracy? 305 CONCLUSION 310 15 Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past? 314 Kate Manzo THE QUESTION Slavery: abolition and continuation 314 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Colonialism and capitalist development in Ivory Coast 318 GENERAL RESPONSES The effects of adjustment: deproletarianisation and modern slavery 324 BROADER ISSUES Is today’s world postcolonial or neo-colonial? 329 CONCLUSION 334 16 How does colonialism work? 338 Sankaran Krishna THE QUESTION Colonialism and underdevelopment 338 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE India and Britain 340 GENERAL RESPONSES What is modern colonialism? 350 CONTENTS xi BROADER ISSUES The psychology of colonialism 354 CONCLUSION 358 17 How is the world organized economically? 363 V. Spike Peterson THE QUESTION From local markets to global political economy 363 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Formal and informal work 367 GENERAL RESPONSES Explaining the politics of economics 371 BROADER ISSUES The hidden costs of neoliberalism 377 CONCLUSION 381 18 Is the financial crisis part of everyday life? 385 Matt Davies THE QUESTION Politics and everyday life 385 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Finance and the financial crisis 386 GENERAL RESPONSES The politics of the financial crisis 391 BROADER ISSUES Re-politicizing finance, re-politicizing everyday life 396 CONCLUSION 401 19 Why are some people better off than others? 405 Paul Cammack THE QUESTION Sources of inequality 405 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Inequality in the age of neoliberal reform 408 GENERAL RESPONSES Liberal and developmental perspectives on inequality 416 BROADER ISSUES Historical materialism and the expansion of the global working class 420 CONCLUSION 425 xii CONTENTS 20 How can we end poverty? 429 Mustapha Kamal Pasha THE QUESTION The global poor and campaigns to end poverty 429 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Modernization and microfinance in South Asia 432 GENERAL RESPONSES The neoliberal project and the export of an ideology 437 BROADER ISSUES Alternative visions of modernity 442 CONCLUSION 447 21 Why do some people think they know what is good for others? 450 Naeem Inayatullah THE QUESTION Giving and receiving 450 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE God’s purpose: early Christian incursions 452 GENERAL RESPONSES History’s progress: contemporary interventions 461 BROADER ISSUES Diagnosing the need for exclusive knowledge 466 CONCLUSION 469 22 Why does politics turn to violence? 472 Joanna Bourke THE QUESTION Mass killing as a cultural phenomenon 472 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Killing in wartime 476 GENERAL RESPONSES Belligerent states 483 BROADER ISSUES Language and memory 487 CONCLUSION 492 23 What counts as violence? 496 Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede THE QUESTION What is violence? 496 CONTENTS xiii ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Violence and targeting in the war on terror 498 GENERAL RESPONSES The relationship between violence and power 508 BROADER ISSUES Visible and invisible violence 512 CONCLUSION 515 24 What makes the world dangerous? 519 Michael Dillon THE QUESTION Living dangerously? 519 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Network-centric warfare 521 GENERAL RESPONSES Thinking in terms of strategy and security 527 BROADER ISSUES Unknown unknowns 531 CONCLUSION 535 25 What can we do to stop people harming others? 539 Anne Orford THE QUESTION Intervening for humanity? 539 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Saving Timor-Leste 542 GENERAL RESPONSES Law and the exceptional 550 BROADER ISSUES Legality, legitimacy and the politics of intervention 554 CONCLUSION 560 26 Can we move beyond conflict? 564 Roland Bleiker THE QUESTION Dealing with seemingly intractable conflicts 564 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The conflict in Korea 566 GENERAL RESPONSES Confrontation and engagement: two approaches to conflict 575 xiv CONTENTS