Bøger af Paul Hirst

At the end of the twentieth century, it becomes ever more clear that Western countries are witnessing the exhaustion of the two great political and economic systems-democratic capitalism and collective state socialism-that have held sway for the past 150 years. Yet neither the traditional Right nor Left has been able to provide viable solutions to this crisis. In this book, Paul Hirst offers a new approach, which he calls associative democracy.Not simply a utopian idea, associative democracy calls for new forms of economic and social governance as supplements to representative democracy and market economies. It addresses the problems of the overload of big government by democratizing and empowering civil society. It transfers social provision to self-governing voluntary associations, while retaining public funding and political accountability. In the economic sphere, it advocates regional economic regulation through public-private partnerships, the promotion of self-governing industrial districts, and the democratization of the company.

Assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. This title begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and also includes chapters on G A Cohen's attempt to re-state the Marxist theory of history in terms compatible with analytic philosophy.

Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power of states and the nature of the international system.

This volume traces Paul Hirst's approach to contemporary politics, an approach that reasons from real political problems rather than abstract concepts, arguing for a "third way" between state socialism and "laissez- faire" capitalism.

'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity.