David Held: 12 books
Cosmopolitanism
Ideals and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicating its core principles and justifications, and examines the role many of these principles have played in the development of global politics, such as...
Introduction to Critical Theory
Horkheimer to Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.
Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political...
by David Held
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what...
Global Covenant
The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to...
Democracy and the Global Order
From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.
by David Held
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation, new forms of democratic ideal, citizenship and social...
Gridlock
Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at...
by Thomas Hale, David Held
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly...
Planetary Politics
Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
by Charles Roger, Eva-Maria Nag, David Held
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Some scholars have gone so far as to argue that these targets are...
Tortenschlachten
Geschichten zum Geburtstag
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Nicht feiern ist auch keine Lösung! Geburtstage sind ebenso großartig wie unvermeidbar - und das gilt nicht nur für uns, sondern auch für Tanten und Onkeln, für Eltern und Geliebte, für Omas und Opas, für Freundinnen, die nicht älter, und Kinder, die nicht rasch genug größer werden können....
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...