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1. The Future of Political Community

   Edited by Gideon Baker, Jens Bartelson

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Politicising Ethics in International Relations

   Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality

   By Gideon Baker

   Series: Routledge Research in International Relations Theory

   The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date?...

   Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Global Civil Society

   Contested Futures

   Edited by Gideon Baker, David Chandler

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the...

   Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
4. Civil Society and Democratic Theory

   Alternative Voices

   By Gideon Baker

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice...

   Published April 17th 2002 by Routledge