Description: This book examines the troubled modern nation-state and reflects on the "end" of authority, sovereignty, and national security, and the implications of that end in the coming decades.
Brief description: Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coauthor, with Judith Mayer, of Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"This is an important book--the first to my knowledge to examine a wide range of alleged threats, from eco-violence to 'ethnic' conflict, in a unified and conceptual framework that makes sense for the post-Cold War world. His insights on the state's disciplining role in a globalized world economy are powerful and well developed." -- Ken Conca, author of Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil's Military-Industrial Complex
"After Authority forces the reader to examine issues and explanations of war, peace, security, and international cooperation in a non-traditional way. It made me think." -- Roger Coate, editor of the journal Global Governance