The Decline of Politics: Governance, Globalization and the Public Sphere (Critical Security Series)

The author describes and analyses the social impact of globalization in terms of an identifiable sense of community and security. Particular attention is given to how globalization is re-shaping the relationship between state and citizen and how increased corporatization is making us re-think the concept of political obligation. It provides an insight into the experience of insecurity as a highly localized phenomena implicating a profound shift in the parameters of state/citizen relations deriving from a corporatised globalised agenda. The text offers an alternative for good governance, one based on extended social capital networks and a re-engagement of politics.