The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order [Hardcover]

Preface.? Introduction? 1. Old Resources for a New Question 2. The Political Honeycomb? 3. Toward a Global Space? 4. The Economic Constitution? 5. Legal Pluralism? 6. The Public Legal Order? 7. The State Constitution? 8. A Metaconstitutional Settlement.? Conclusion

The Worlds Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order?offers a vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. This book shares insights that cut across a range of topics from social welfare to channels of representation.?

Adam K Webb is Resident Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, an overseas campus of Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies. Previously he taught at Harvard and Princeton and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His other books include Beyond the Global Culture War (Routledge, 2006), A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrows Economy of Values (ISI Books, 2009), and Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (Routledge, 2015).

Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Some observers treat it as inevitable amid the urgency of global issues. They foresee a technocratic scaling up of the model of state authority that has prevailed at the national level for over two hundred years. Many critics and members of the public around the world look askance at that prospect. They rightly fear a moral vacuum of authority disconnected from the worlds traditions, and a concentration of power that would be damaging to liberty or even dystopian in its upshot. Still, they often merely aim to stand athwart the scaling l£"