The Great Disruption

Introduction. The “Imaginary” of a New World

PART ONE: FAREWELL BODIN?

1 Sovereignty is No Longer One and Indivisible

From Government to Governance

2 The Redistribution of Sovereignty

Redistribution Towards the Market - Hayek Against Bodin - Redistribution Towards Civil Society - Civil Society and State Sovereignty - Why are Law and Politics not One and the Same?

3 Towards The Era of Operational Sovereignty?

PART TWO

4 Governance Against Sovereignism

Why Does Europe Prefer Standards and Norms? - Governance against Sovereignism: Proof by the Economy - Euro-American To-ings and Fro-ings - The Spectacular Inversion of Attitudes to Risk in Europe and America - Between Europe and America: a “Conflict of Experience”- The WTO and the Challenge of Collective Preferences - The Kyoto Litmus Test - The Conflict Around International Criminal Justice - Why has America Gone Back to Carl Schmitt? - Why is Europe Kantian?

5 The Self-Regulating Market

Why are there Fewer Public Goods? - The Market is Not External to Society - The Market Comes Off its National Hinges - The Ideological Construction of Globalization - Lex Globalica - The Dynamics of Self-Regulation

6 Is the State the “Useful Idiot” of the Global Village?

The Hobbesian State - The Market State - The Politicization of World Trade

The State as Guarantor of the Openness of Markets - The State as Guarantor of Collective Preferences - The Cannibalization of the Welfare State? - Does Globalization Create a Demand for More State Intervention?

7 The New Property Question

The Return of Enclosures - The Tragedy of the Anti-Commons

PART THREE: RETICENCE AND RESISTANCE

8 Is Alterglobalism a Trade Unionism?

The Founding Moves of Alterglobalism - The Mobilizing Myth of the Tobin Tax -

Why Alterglobalism is not a Trade Unionism - The Three Tendencies within French Alterglobalism - The Left and Alterglobalism

9 Why Does Globalization Generate Anxiety?

Age, Qualifications, Exposure and Socialization: the Quadrilateral of Representations - Populism or the Rejection of Complexity - Why Peoples are not Spontaneously pro-Free Trade - The Abiding Influence of Mercantilism

10 The Cohort of Losers

Why does Globalization Downgrade Unskilled Workers Even More? - The Global Social Ladder Kicked Away

Conclusion. There is no Globalization Without Difficulty… Or Without History

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