The World's Constitution

Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order

Adam K. Webb

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Routledge
01 January 2025

Political science & theory; Public administration; International relations; Social law

Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Some observers treat it as inevitable amid the urgency of global issues. They foresee a technocratic scaling up of the model of state authority that has prevailed at the national level for over two hundred years. Many critics and members of the public around the world look askance at that prospect. They rightly fear a moral vacuum of authority disconnected from the world’s traditions, and a concentration of power that would be damaging to liberty or even dystopian in its upshot. Still, they often merely aim to stand athwart the scaling up of political institutions, rather than actively trying to shape an alternative that can seize the global horizon.

The World’s Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order offers a radically different vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. It draws on older resources in political thought, both Western and non-Western, to upend mainstream notions of statehood and sovereignty that have been taken for granted for too long in the modern era. It offers an original ‘sphere pluralist’ framework that can reconcile liberty, tradition, and cosmopolitanism. As a book rooted in the past but mindful of future constitutional and policy challenges, it bridges ideas and real-world implications, with insights that cut across a wide range of topics from migration and social welfare to personal law systems and channels of representation. It opens an exciting debate about global constitutional futures that is likely to become more salient over the next couple of generations.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

By: Adam K. Webb
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9781032893433
ISBN 10: 1032893435
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 01 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface. Introduction 1. Old Resources for a New Question 2. The Political Honeycomb 3. Toward a Global Space 4. The Economic Constitution 5. Legal Pluralism 6. The Public Legal Order 7. The State Constitution 8. A Metaconstitutional Settlement. Conclusion

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).