Original scientific paper
“WORLD GOVERNMENT” AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOLLOWING THE DEMISE OF THE INHERITED “NATIONAL STATE”
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann
; Goethe-Institut, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland
Abstract
The author analyzes the interpretations by Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Helmut Willke of the end of the national state within the context of contemporary debates on globalisation. The author thinks that in their analyses both authors have come up with similar insights, particularly those regarding the assessment of the functional role which may be analytically attributed to the national state in the present and the future. Although their observations coincide with the debates on globalisation going on in political economy and political science, their conclusions are not in line with the special structure of political activity. Unlike their state/theoretical “hegelianism” (Guéhenno) and system theory functional definition of government activity (Willke), the author looks into the contemporary operation of the state from the legal/philosophical perspective.
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31953
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Publication date:
9.9.1999.
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