Political Theory Without Borders

Political Theory Without Borders offers a comprehensive survey of the issues that have shaped political theory in the wake of social and environmental globalization.

• Focuses on specific questions that arise from issues of global spillovers like climate change and pollution, international immigration, and political intervention abroad
• Includes chapters written by some of the best new scholars working in the field today, along with key texts from some of the most well-known scholars of previous generations
• Illustrates how the classics concerns of political theory – justice and equality, liberty and oppression – have re-emerged with renewed significance at the global level
• The newest volume in the distinguished philosophy, politics & society series, initiated by Peter Laslett in 1956

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor ofThe Journal of Political Philosophy, Dr. Goodin has published many books, including most recentlyExplaining Norms (2013 with G. Brennan, L. Eriksson and N. Southwood), On Complicity and Compromise (2013 with C. Lepora), and On Settling (2012). His bookDiscretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo and L. Eriksson) was awarded the International Social Science Council’s Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of a number of books, including When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation(2011), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), andDemocracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (1991). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, he has co-edited the Philosophy, Politics and Society Series since 1979.