Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- 1 New constitutionalism and world order
- Part I Concepts
- Part II Genealogy, origins and world order
- Part III Multilevel governance and neo-liberalization
- Part IV Trade, investment and taxation
- Part V Social reproduction, welfare and ecology
- Part VI Globalization from below and prospects for a just new constitutionalism
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Part I - Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- 1 New constitutionalism and world order
- Part I Concepts
- Part II Genealogy, origins and world order
- Part III Multilevel governance and neo-liberalization
- Part IV Trade, investment and taxation
- Part V Social reproduction, welfare and ecology
- Part VI Globalization from below and prospects for a just new constitutionalism
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Concepts
The aim of Part I is twofold. First, it seeks to outline some of the issues surrounding the collective critical effort of this volume to interrogate and underline the importance of law and constitutionalism for the study of global political economy. Second and more specifically, it seeks to outline how new constitutionalism operates within the dynamics of emergent global market civilization as the ‘common sense’ for ordering the neo-liberal restructuring of local and global political economies and societies. There are four main themes to Part 1:
Conceptualization of the law as an active governing technique that is productive of political authority;
Expansion of the commodity form of law and new constitutionalism in the social reproduction of capitalist market civilization;
Globalization of the neo-liberal rule of law as a project to strengthen and legitimate the power of capital and to secure the absolute sovereignty of private property rights; and
Possibilities for the development of alternative or insurgent forms of constitutionalism to advance a more just, democratic and progressive world order.
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- New Constitutionalism and World Order , pp. 23 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014