1st Edition
The World's Constitution Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Managing an Expanding World
Three Unsettling Trends
The Last Stand of Liberal Globalisation
Tradition Against Technocracy
1. Old Resources for a New Question
Heterarchy and the Traditions of Liberty
Absolutism, Liberalism, and the Monism of Modernity
Pluralism and Sphere Sovereignty
Towards a Virtue-Centred Sphere Pluralism
A Distinct Approach to the Global Question
2. The Political Honeycomb
The Long Arm of the State
Borders, the Container Society, and Double Standards
Free Movement and the Prepolitical
3. Toward a Global Space
The Lost Open World
Mobility, Meaning, and the Voices of World Society
A Roadmap to Open Roads
Places and Belonging Without Walls
4. The Economic Constitution
Markets, Pluralism, and Conscience
Safety Nets and Health Security
Diversifying Education
Civil Society and the Gift Economy
Fettering the Public Fisc
Regulation and the Currencies of Liberty
5. Legal Pluralism
Law Beyond Territory
Sources of Legal Pluralism
Personal Law and Human Flourishing
Legal Reform from Within
6. The Public Legal Order
Bridging Legal Pluralism
Tolerance and Legitimacy
Rule of Law
Organs of Justice
7. The State Constitution
The State’s Competence
Socialising the Stewards
Social Pluralism and the Mixed Constitution
Representing the Demos
8. A Metaconstitutional Settlement
Foundings and Revolutions
Guarding the Settlement
Encircling the Dignified Constitution
Iron Fists in Velvet Gloves
Traitors and Reformers
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Biography
Adam K Webb is Resident Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, an overseas campus of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Previously he taught at Harvard and Princeton and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His other books include Beyond the Global Culture War (Routledge, 2006), A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow’s Economy of Values (ISI Books, 2009), and Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (Routledge, 2015).
