World Statehood

Chapter 1. Introduction: the Future of World Politics.- Part 1: Cosmo-political Processes.- Chapter 2. Cosmological Sources of Critical Cosmopolitanism.- Chapter 3. A Creation Myth and Origin Story Suitable to Our Globalised World? A Friendly Critique of the Big History Storyline About Our Place in Cosmos.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Eurocentrism: a Universal History of the Industrial Revolution and the Peace Problematic.- Chapter 5. Problems of Democratising Global Power Relations in the 21st Century: Time, Space and the Emancipatory Process.- Part 2: Reflexive Futures and Agency.- Chapter 6. How Will the Cold War End? Non-fixed Pasts, Reflexive Futures and the Transformation of the Temporality of Human Existence.- Chapter 7. Resolving Problems and Overcoming Contradictions Through Global Law and Institutions: a Post-Deutschian Perspective.- Chapter 8. On the Dialectics of Global Governance in the 21st Century: a Polanyian Double Movement?.- Chapter 9. Transformative Agency: Towards a World Political Party.- Part 3: World Statehood and Beyond.- Chapter 10. Emergence of World Statehood: a Processual and Open-ended Account.- Chapter 11. The Transformative Potential of Climate Change: Towards a Dynamic Global Tax.- Chapter 12. Rethinking World Parliament: Beyond the Indeterminacy of International Law.- Chapter 13. After World Statehood? Legitimation and Potential Conflicts in a World Political Community.