The Green State : Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty - Robyn Eckersley

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The Green State

Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty

By: Robyn Eckersley

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Paperback | 5 March 2004

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What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state—seeking, she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo." In recent years, most environmental scholars and environmentalists have characterized the sovereign state as ineffectual and have criticized nations for perpetuating ecological destruction. Going consciously against the grain of much current thinking, this book argues that the state is still the preeminent political institution for addressing environmental problems. States remain the gatekeepers of the global order, and greening the state is a necessary step, Eckersley argues, toward greening domestic and international policy and law.

The Green State seeks to connect the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with contemporary theories about the state, democracy, and justice. Eckersley''s proposed "critical political ecology" expands the boundaries of the moral community to include the natural environment in which the human community is embedded. This is the first book to make the vision of a "good" green state explicit, to explore the obstacles to its achievement, and to suggest practical constitutional and multilateral arrangements that could help transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green democratic state. Rethinking the state in light of the principles of ecological democracy ultimately casts it in a new role: that of an ecological steward and facilitator of transboundary democracy rather than a selfish actor jealously protecting its territory.

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"A magnificent achievement which will be a key point of reference for years to come." - Andrew Dobson, Department of Government and Politics, Open University."

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Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Why the Green State?	p. 1
Aims and Method: Critical Political Ecology	p. 8
Working toward the Green State: A Provisional Starting Point	p. 11
Three Core Challenges	p. 13
The State and Global Anarchy	p. 19
Environmental Realpolitiks and the Tragedy of the Commons	p. 19
Neoliberalism, Environmental Regimes, and the Limits of Problem Solving	p. 28
Critical Constructivism and Social Learning	p. 33
Not One but Many "Cultures of Anarchy"	p. 43
Toward Structural Transformation?	p. 48
The State and Global Capitalism	p. 53
The Decline of the State?	p. 53
Eco-Marxism, the Welfare State, and Legitimation Crisis	p. 54
From the Welfare State to the Competition State	p. 65
Ecological Modernization: Just a New Competitive Strategy?	p. 70
Globalization, Sustainability, and the State	p. 79
The Limits of the Liberal Democratic State	p. 85
The Liberal Democratic State: Not Reflexive Enough?	p. 85
The Ecological Critique of the Administrative State	p. 88
The Ecological Critique of Liberal Democracy	p. 93
An Immanent Ecological Critique of Liberal Dogmas	p. 104
From Liberal to Ecological Democracy	p. 111
Ecological Democracy: An Ambit Claim	p. 111
The Intuitive Green Appeal of Deliberative Democracy	p. 115
Representing "Excluded Others": The Moral and Epistemological Challenges	p. 119
Representing "Excluded Others": The Political and Institutional Challenges	p. 127
The Greening of the Democratic State	p. 139
From Ecological Democracy to the Green Democratic State	p. 139
The State, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere	p. 142
A Green Critique and Reconstruction of the Habermasian Democratic State	p. 150
Realizing the Potential of the Public Sphere	p. 153
From Pragmatic to Moral Deliberation (and Back Again)	p. 164
Cosmopolitan Democracy versus the Transnational State	p. 171
Principles of Democratic Governance: Belongingness versus Affectedness	p. 171
Communitarian or Cosmopolitan Democracy	p. 179
The Transnational State as a Facilitator of Ecological Citizenship	p. 190
Unit-Driven Transformation and the Power of Example	p. 198
Green Evolutions in Sovereignty	p. 203
Green Evolutions in Sovereignty	p. 203
New Developments in Global Environmental Law and Policy	p. 211
Environmental Multilateralism: General Developments	p. 211
State Responsibility for Environmental Harm	p. 217
The Right to Develop: Economic versus Environmental Justice?	p. 221
Ecological Security and New Norms of Intervention?	p. 224
Ecological Harm, Nonintervention, and Ecologically Responsible Statehood	p. 228
Conclusion: Sovereignty and Democracy Working Together	p. 241
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 317
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