Liberty Beyond Neo-Liberalism : A Republican Critique of Liberal Governance in a Globalising Age

Under the conditions of economic globalization, the prevailing liberal philosophy of governance is becoming increasingly problematic. This book critiques three varieties of liberal engagement with the processes of globalization and their ability to temper the harmful effects of the process. Steven Slaughter proposes an alternate approach, global civic republicanism, which seeks to retrieve the civic and public character of the state in order to protect it from economic vulnerability and to constitute a resilient form of liberty.

Steven Slaughter is in the Department of Political Science at University of Melbourne.

Introduction PART I: ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND NEO-LIBERAL GOVERNANCE * A Critical Account of Globalization * The Political Infrastructure of Neo-Liberal Globalization * Liberalism and the Consequences of Neo-Liberal Globalization * PART II: LIBERAL RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION * Extended Neo-liberalism: Governing Without the State * Contractual Nationalism: Governing Through the Nation-state * Cosmopolitan Governance: Building Global Democracy * PART III: THE REPUBLICAN RESTORATION OF THE STATE * Global Civic Republicanism: Retrieving the State * Good Government in a Global Age * Bibliography