Pacifying the Planet Norbert Elias on Globalization

Globalization presages an important new stage in the centuries-old 'civilizing process,' which Norbert Elias analyzed with such clarity and in such depth. At the root of the fundamental transformations of our world of nation-states are combined integrating and disintegrating tendencies, or...

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Published inTheoria (Pietermaritzburg) Vol. 54; no. 113; pp. 76 - 96
Main Author Deacon, Roger
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berghahn Journals 01.08.2007
Berghahn Books, Inc
Subjects
Analysis
Civilizing Process
Elias, Norbert
Globalization
Human rights
Humans
Individualization
International cooperation
Monopoly
Nation states
National state
Sociologists
Sovereign states
Sovereignty
Taxation
Works
World politics
South Africa
nation-state
Elias
individualization
globalization
centralization
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Summary:Globalization presages an important new stage in the centuries-old 'civilizing process,' which Norbert Elias analyzed with such clarity and in such depth. At the root of the fundamental transformations of our world of nation-states are combined integrating and disintegrating tendencies, or centralization and individualization, which manifest themselves in a steady monopolization of the means of violence and taxation, an interventionist human rights discourse, and war as a means of democratizing and pacifying the planet. Elias' 'historical social psychological' approach offers new categories of analysis with which to both explain the effects of globalization and indicate how international interdependence fosters both control and resistance, both democratization and radicalization, and both integration and disintegration.
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ISSN:0040-5817
1558-5816
DOI:10.3167/th.2007.5411305