Philip G Cerny
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 758714 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Philip G Cerny |
| NOMBRES | Philip G |
| APELLIDO | Cerny |
| FIRMA | CERNY P G |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5631-6483 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 851 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Heterarchy in World Politics
Heterarchy
International Relations theory has been dominated since the study of IR formally began at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1919 by the presumption that world politics is at its core a system of states. We argue that this way of conceiving world politics was (a) always problematic and challengeable, and (b) time-bound and increasingly anachronistic. In the 21st century world politics is becoming increasingly multi-nodal and characterised b…
The new anarchy
Modern International Relations theory has consistently underestimated the depth of the problem of anarchy in world politics. Contemporary theories of globalisation bring this into bold relief. From this perspective, the complexity of transboundary networks and hierarchies, economic sectors, ethnic and religious ties, civil and cross-border wars, and internally disaggregated and transnationally connected state actors, leads to a complex and multid…
From warriors to police? The civilianisation of security in a globalising world
Rethinking Global Environmental Policy
Originally focused on seeking policy solutions through international cooperation, transnational administration, and global governance, the study of global environmental policy has become increasingly diverse and fragmented. Complex, crosscutting variables ranging from a wider constellation of non‐state actors to diverse critical perspectives, along with a focus on narrower sub‐fields and the changing nature of environmental challenges themselves,…
Globalization and the resilience of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is the hegemonic paradigm in most of the world today, including not only the United States and Europe, but also most of the developing world – and, indeed, even in ‘authoritarian neol
Bringing Sociology to International Relations
Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social systems such as class. Drawing on the latest developments on differentiation theory in international relations and sociology, this book brings togeth…
The future of power
by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., New York, Public Affairs, 2011, 320 pp., US$27.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978‐1‐58648‐891‐8 Joseph Nye is famous for coining one of the most significant terms in twenty‐first‐centu
Rethinking World Politics
This book is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still presumes the following: in domestic affairs, individual states function as essentially unified entities; and in international affairs, stable nation-states interact with each other. In this book, the state lies at the center; it is what politics is all about. However, the author co…
The competition state today
In a globalising world, states are undergoing a fundamental transformation in their underlying rationality, what Foucault has called ‘governmentality’. Raison d’État is being superseded by a transnationalising, globalising rationality that I call raison du Monde, at the core of which is the imperative of maintaining and promoting competitiveness in a world marketplace and multi-level political system – the Competition State. The state still has a…
Rethinking world politics
This text is a major intervention into a central debate in international relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? In this scholarship, the state lies at the centre; it is what politics is all about
Introduction
Some Pitfalls of Democratisation in a Globalising World
The problems and prospects of the expansion of democracy at international, transnational and/or global levels were the focus of numerous fascinating and penetrating analyses by the participants in the 2008 Millennium Conference. However, there were also a number of gaps and unresolved issues. This article attempts to identify and evaluate several potential pitfalls confronting the expansion of democratic institutions and processes. Five of those …
Multi-nodal politics
What has been traditionally conceptualised as ‘the international’ has been undergoing a fundamental transformation in recent decades, usually called ‘globalisation’. Globalisation is a highly contested concept, and even among those who accept that some sort of globalisation process is occurring, attempts to analyse it have focused on a range of structural explanations: the expansion of economic transactions; the development of transnational or gl…
Plurality, Pluralism, and Power
Restructuring the state in a globalizing world
A main concern of debates on the changing role and form of the state and the relationship of these with the process of globalization has been the role of capitalism. Jessop, a well known exponent of Marxist political theory, tackles the broader range of issues but, like the urban sociologist Brenner, is most interesting when he writes about the institutional restructuring or ‘rescaling’ of the state along lines that go well beyond multi-level gov…
Internalizing Globalization
This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a b
Internalizing Globalization
Globalisation and public policy under New Labour
The concept of the Competition State differs from the Post-Fordist State proposed by regulation theory, which asserts that the contemporary restructuring of the state is aimed at maintaining its general function of stabilising the national polity and promoting the domestic economy in the public interest. In contrast, the Competition State focuses on the transformation of the state from within with regard to the reform of political institutions, f…
Disaffected Democracies
The New Security Dilemma
Traditionally, the central problematic of the Westphalian states system has been how to counteract the so-called ‘security dilemma’, the tendency for states in a context of uncertainty to defect from cooperative arrangements if they perceive other states' security preparations as threatening (misperception; arms racing). As the states system became more centralized and the number of major players declined in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries…
Political Agency in a Globalizing World
Theories of globalization have tended to privilege structural explanations of change, whereas agency-centred approaches have either over-emphasized the potential autonomy of ideas and rule-writing or focused on relatively incremental changes. This article attempts to develop a structurationist analysis — i.e. not only that structure and agency are mutually constituted, but also that different types of structures interact with different types of a…
Globalising the political and politicising the global
(1999). Globalising the political and politicising the global: Concluding reflections on international political economy as a vocation. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 147-162
Globalization and the erosion of democracy
Despite the apparent development and spread of liberal democratic state forms in the 1980s and 1990s, possibilities for genuine democratic governance overall are declining. Firstly, the emergence and consolidation of modern liberal democracy was inextricably intertwined with the development of the nation–state and is profoundly socially embedded in that structural context. Secondly, in today's globalizing world, cross–cutting and overlapping gove…
Neomedievalism, civil war and the new security dilemma
Globalisation is creating a growing range of complex challenges to the autonomous policy‐making capacity, authority and legitimacy of nation‐states, while a new security dilemma is challenging the ability of states and of the states system to provide both international and domestic security as a public good. These changes are leading to an unbundling of basic state functions and the growth of uneven, cross‐cutting and overlapping levels of govern…
Paradoxes of the Competition State
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATION-STATE INTO A ‘COMPETITION state’ lies at the heart of political globalization. In seeking to adapt to a range of complex changes in cultural, institutional and market structures, both state and market actors are attempting to reinvent the state as a quasi-‘enterprise association’ in a wider world context, a process which involves three central paradoxes. The first paradox is that this process does not lead to a si…
Globalization and the changing logic of collective action
Globalization transforms collective action in domestic and international politics. As the scale of markets widens and as economic organization becomes more complex, the institutional scale of political structures can become insufficient for the provision of an appropriate range of public goods. A process of this sort occurred prior to the emergence of the modern nation-state, which itself constituted a paradigmatic response to this predicament. T…
The dynamics of financial globalization
Globalization and the erosion of democracy
Despite the apparent development and spread of liberal democratic state forms in the 1980s and 1990s, possibilities for genuine democratic governance overall are declining. Firstly, the emergence and consolidation of modern liberal democracy was inextricably intertwined with the development of the nation–state and is profoundly socially embedded in that structural context. Secondly, in today's globalizing world, cross–cutting and overlapping gove…
Globalization and Other Stories
Dimensions of globalization A fundamental transformation has begun in the way we perceive the world. What has often been presented as four centuries of 'normal science'2 in politics and international relations the Westphalian or realist understanding which posits a priori that the key actors in international relations are states (and, more recently, nation-states) is being challenged across a sufficiently wide range of empirical findings that the…
The limits of deregulation
Deregulation became a major cross‐national trend in the 1980s. Proponents of deregulation have included neoclassicists, pragmatists and certain analysts on the Left and Center‐Left. Deregulation has a number of unintended or unforeseen consequences. A major issue is the development of new, market‐oriented regulations and regulatory structures – the first category of ‘reregulation’. Another is the cross‐national knock‐on effect of regulatory chang…
The ‘Little Big Bang’ in Paris
French dirigisme since World War II has been identified at four levels: economic planning; the dominance of a neo‐colbertisre civil service elite; Gaullism and the Fifth Republic; and a state‐led, credit‐based system for financing industry. The last of these was seen by Zysman (1977, 1983) as the strategic core of dirigisme, as in Japan, through state control of industrial purse strings. Paradoxically, it was the Socialist Governments of 1981–86,…
The competition state today
In a globalising world, states are undergoing a fundamental transformation in their underlying rationality, what Foucault has called ‘governmentality’. Raison d’État is being superseded by a transnationalising, globalising rationality that I call raison du Monde, at the core of which is the imperative of maintaining and promoting competitiveness in a world marketplace and multi-level political system – the Competition State. The state still has a…
Plurilateralism
Neomedievalism, civil war and the new security dilemma
Globalisation is creating a growing range of complex challenges to the autonomous policy‐making capacity, authority and legitimacy of nation‐states, while a new security dilemma is challenging the ability of states and of the states system to provide both international and domestic security as a public good. These changes are leading to an unbundling of basic state functions and the growth of uneven, cross‐cutting and overlapping levels of govern…
Globalisation and public policy under New Labour
The concept of the Competition State differs from the Post-Fordist State proposed by regulation theory, which asserts that the contemporary restructuring of the state is aimed at maintaining its general function of stabilising the national polity and promoting the domestic economy in the public interest. In contrast, the Competition State focuses on the transformation of the state from within with regard to the reform of political institutions, f…
The new anarchy
Modern International Relations theory has consistently underestimated the depth of the problem of anarchy in world politics. Contemporary theories of globalisation bring this into bold relief. From this perspective, the complexity of transboundary networks and hierarchies, economic sectors, ethnic and religious ties, civil and cross-border wars, and internally disaggregated and transnationally connected state actors, leads to a complex and multid…
Political Agency in a Globalizing World
Theories of globalization have tended to privilege structural explanations of change, whereas agency-centred approaches have either over-emphasized the potential autonomy of ideas and rule-writing or focused on relatively incremental changes. This article attempts to develop a structurationist analysis — i.e. not only that structure and agency are mutually constituted, but also that different types of structures interact with different types of a…
The Process of Personal Leadership
Assessing personal leadership is a highly problematic task. However, a fairly simply framework can be developed based on the interaction of the leader's personal qualities, his or her relationship with the body politic, and his or her relationship with the state. Four consequent types of personal leadership derived from this framework are focused on here: routine leadership, integrative leadership, catalytic leadership and transformative leadersh…
Some Pitfalls of Democratisation in a Globalising World
The problems and prospects of the expansion of democracy at international, transnational and/or global levels were the focus of numerous fascinating and penetrating analyses by the participants in the 2008 Millennium Conference. However, there were also a number of gaps and unresolved issues. This article attempts to identify and evaluate several potential pitfalls confronting the expansion of democratic institutions and processes. Five of those …
Cleavage, Aggregation, and Change in French Politics
French politics have been undergoing a process of restructuring since the coming of the Fifth Republic in 1958. This process, like any process of political change, has been a complex one involving many factors and variables. The most obvious of these factors has been the one most commented upon by journalists and contemporary historians – the influence of General de Gaulle and his policies (the new constitution, foreign policy, etc.). What is onl…
Heterarchy
International Relations theory has been dominated since the study of IR formally began at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1919 by the presumption that world politics is at its core a system of states. We argue that this way of conceiving world politics was (a) always problematic and challengeable, and (b) time-bound and increasingly anachronistic. In the 21st century world politics is becoming increasingly multi-nodal and characterised b…
Restructuring the state in a globalizing world
A main concern of debates on the changing role and form of the state and the relationship of these with the process of globalization has been the role of capitalism. Jessop, a well known exponent of Marxist political theory, tackles the broader range of issues but, like the urban sociologist Brenner, is most interesting when he writes about the institutional restructuring or ‘rescaling’ of the state along lines that go well beyond multi-level gov…
Political Entropy and American Decline
The Fall of Two Presidents and Extraparliamentary Opposition
EXTRAPARLIAMENTARY OPPOSTION MADE ITS APPEARANCE IN THE midst of the political upheavals of 1968 both as part of a wider phenomenon of social and political life and as the result of a specific combination of factors in certain countries, especially France and the United States. In the wider sense, it resulted from the age-old problem: are established political structures willing (or indeed able) to answer the needs of the larger socio-political c…
Rethinking Global Environmental Policy
Originally focused on seeking policy solutions through international cooperation, transnational administration, and global governance, the study of global environmental policy has become increasingly diverse and fragmented. Complex, crosscutting variables ranging from a wider constellation of non‐state actors to diverse critical perspectives, along with a focus on narrower sub‐fields and the changing nature of environmental challenges themselves,…
Globalization and the resilience of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is the hegemonic paradigm in most of the world today, including not only the United States and Europe, but also most of the developing world – and, indeed, even in ‘authoritarian neol
The New Security Dilemma
Traditionally, the central problematic of the Westphalian states system has been how to counteract the so-called ‘security dilemma’, the tendency for states in a context of uncertainty to defect from cooperative arrangements if they perceive other states' security preparations as threatening (misperception; arms racing). As the states system became more centralized and the number of major players declined in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries…
Introduction
Multi-nodal politics
What has been traditionally conceptualised as ‘the international’ has been undergoing a fundamental transformation in recent decades, usually called ‘globalisation’. Globalisation is a highly contested concept, and even among those who accept that some sort of globalisation process is occurring, attempts to analyse it have focused on a range of structural explanations: the expansion of economic transactions; the development of transnational or gl…
The Fall of Two Presidents and Extraparliamentary Opposition
EXTRAPARLIAMENTARY OPPOSTION MADE ITS APPEARANCE IN THE midst of the political upheavals of 1968 both as part of a wider phenomenon of social and political life and as the result of a specific combination of factors in certain countries, especially France and the United States. In the wider sense, it resulted from the age-old problem: are established political structures willing (or indeed able) to answer the needs of the larger socio-political c…
De Gaulle, the Nation-State and Foreign Policy
Valery has written that “A great man is one who leaves others after him in a state of embarrassment.” Certainly, the eighteen-month-old era of aprés de Gaulle has been characterized by an unexpected sense of confidence, not the oft-predicted chaos. But embarrassment persists. The enigma of de Gaulle himself remains. We have many and varied chronicles of his long political career. We have his speeches, his early books, his war memoirs and the firs…
The Mismatched President
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Cleavage, Aggregation, and Change in French Politics
French politics have been undergoing a process of restructuring since the coming of the Fifth Republic in 1958. This process, like any process of political change, has been a complex one involving many factors and variables. The most obvious of these factors has been the one most commented upon by journalists and contemporary historians – the influence of General de Gaulle and his policies (the new constitution, foreign policy, etc.). What is onl…
The Politics of Grandeur
Part I. Ideological roots and purposes of de Gaulle's foreign policy: 1. The personal equation: psychology, socialisation and culture 2. The philosophical roots of Gaullism 3. The dynamics of Gaullist ideology: de Gaulle's theory of leadership and political action 4. National consciousness and the role of France in world politics: the Gaullist perspective 5. Foreign policy leadership and national integration: a framework for analysis Part II. The…
The Politics of Grandeur
Policymaking in France
Democratic socialism and the tests of power
Socialist parties face particular problems in attaining power in capitalist democracies as a result of both their broad economic aims and the requirements of political coalition‐building. The French Socialists, coming to power in 1981 after 23 years of Right‐wing rule, confronted challenges on three levels: of adapting to and utilising the institutional framework of the Fifth Republic; of dealing with the constraints on innovatory politics; and o…
Mitterrand's Foreign Policy; Continuity and Vulnerability
Dead Ends and New Possibilities
Public policy and the structural logic of the state
Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. By Peter A. Hall. Oxford: Polity Press, 1986. Pp.31. £25.00 (hardback), S8.95 (paperback). The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France. By Jack Hayward. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1986. Pp.xv + 267. £28.50. Patterns of Social Policy: An Introduction to Comparative Analysis. By Catherine Jones. London: Tavistock, 1985. P.ix +…
Le leadership politique en tant que processus politique
The Process of Personal Leadership
Assessing personal leadership is a highly problematic task. However, a fairly simply framework can be developed based on the interaction of the leader's personal qualities, his or her relationship with the body politic, and his or her relationship with the state. Four consequent types of personal leadership derived from this framework are focused on here: routine leadership, integrative leadership, catalytic leadership and transformative leadersh…
Political Entropy and American Decline
The ‘Little Big Bang’ in Paris
French dirigisme since World War II has been identified at four levels: economic planning; the dominance of a neo‐colbertisre civil service elite; Gaullism and the Fifth Republic; and a state‐led, credit‐based system for financing industry. The last of these was seen by Zysman (1977, 1983) as the strategic core of dirigisme, as in Japan, through state control of industrial purse strings. Paradoxically, it was the Socialist Governments of 1981–86,…
European defence and the new détente
France in World Politics. Edited by Robert Aldrich and John Connell. London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. 229. £30.00. Franco‐British Defence Cooperation: A New Entente Cordiale? Edited by Yves Boyer, Pierre Lellouche and John Roper. London: Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales, 1989. Pp. xii + 194. £30.00. The New Détente: Rethinking East‐West Relations. Edited by Mary Kaldor, G…
The limits of deregulation
Deregulation became a major cross‐national trend in the 1980s. Proponents of deregulation have included neoclassicists, pragmatists and certain analysts on the Left and Center‐Left. Deregulation has a number of unintended or unforeseen consequences. A major issue is the development of new, market‐oriented regulations and regulatory structures – the first category of ‘reregulation’. Another is the cross‐national knock‐on effect of regulatory chang…
Plurilateralism
The dynamics of financial globalization
Globalization and the changing logic of collective action
Globalization transforms collective action in domestic and international politics. As the scale of markets widens and as economic organization becomes more complex, the institutional scale of political structures can become insufficient for the provision of an appropriate range of public goods. A process of this sort occurred prior to the emergence of the modern nation-state, which itself constituted a paradigmatic response to this predicament. T…
Globalization and Other Stories
Dimensions of globalization A fundamental transformation has begun in the way we perceive the world. What has often been presented as four centuries of 'normal science'2 in politics and international relations the Westphalian or realist understanding which posits a priori that the key actors in international relations are states (and, more recently, nation-states) is being challenged across a sufficiently wide range of empirical findings that the…
Paradoxes of the Competition State
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATION-STATE INTO A ‘COMPETITION state’ lies at the heart of political globalization. In seeking to adapt to a range of complex changes in cultural, institutional and market structures, both state and market actors are attempting to reinvent the state as a quasi-‘enterprise association’ in a wider world context, a process which involves three central paradoxes. The first paradox is that this process does not lead to a si…
Neomedievalism, civil war and the new security dilemma
Globalisation is creating a growing range of complex challenges to the autonomous policy‐making capacity, authority and legitimacy of nation‐states, while a new security dilemma is challenging the ability of states and of the states system to provide both international and domestic security as a public good. These changes are leading to an unbundling of basic state functions and the growth of uneven, cross‐cutting and overlapping levels of govern…
Politicising International Finance
Globalising the political and politicising the global
(1999). Globalising the political and politicising the global: Concluding reflections on international political economy as a vocation. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 147-162
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