Cover Beyond States
series "Intersezioni"
"Faustiana, a cura di Aldo Schiavone"
pp. 256, Brossura, 978-88-15-38333-4
publication year 2023

ANTHONY PAGDEN

Beyond States

Powers, Peoples and Global Order

None of the great challenges facing us today – the protection of the environment, the rational use of energy sources, the health of our species and, indeed, of all living things – can now be addressed by a single country, no matter how powerful it may be. Awareness of this fact entails the need to think about something that had previously seemed an utter utopia: the prospect of a planetary government stretching well beyond the borders of nation-states, even when the latter tend to take on the form of empires. At the same time, we increasingly encounter expressions such as “international justice”, “supra-territoriality” and “transnational government”, despite the horrors of the war of aggression occurring at Europe’s doorstep. We are growing accustomed to the idea of a global civil society, something like an authentic planetary civilisation. This lucid, realistic and visionary book, written by a major historian, projects readers into an imaginable future – not only for the West, but for an entire world finally at peace with itself.

Anthony Pagden teaches History and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Premessa
I. La nascita della nazione
Che cos’è una nazione?
Gli imperi universali.
Dalla nazione allo stato-nazione.
Democrazia.
II. Dal nazionale all’internazionale
La legge di natura.
Il diritto universale.
Il mondo creato dai giudici.
Cosmopolitismo giudiziario.
III. Fare mondo
La società dei commerci.
Un pianeta connesso.
Gli stati-azienda.
Verso una nuova società civile.
IV. Federare il genere umano
Re-immaginare la nazione.
La fine dello stato sovrano.
Il rinnovamento.
La federalizzazione del pianeta.
Epilogo. Oltre la Terra
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