Constructing a Global Polity

Olaf Corry is Lecturer in International Relations at The Open University, UK. He has a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked at Cambridge and as a policy-advisor. He has written about global politics, social movements, climate change and risk in journals such as Review of International Studies, Millennium, and Political Studies.

'In this highly innovative book, Olaf Corry provides a fresh take on the problem of world order. Venturing beyond statist and globalist accounts, Corry argues that the concept of polity will help us to make better sense of the structure of the global realm, as well as the constitution of governance objects within that realm. As such, this book represents a significant contribution to the study of order in world politics, and should be of interest to international relations theorists and sociologists alike.' -Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden 'A superb account that penetrates the confusion of today's geopolitics to find a global polity coalescing around global governance objects.' - Martin Albrow, University of Bonn, Germany 'A highly innovative work which adds greatly to our understanding of global politics.' - Anthony Giddens, Member of the House of Lords 'Corry's Constructing a Global Polity [offers] a fresh interpretation of how IR must conceptualise and situate the state, the international, and the global. Corry formulates an original new model of a 'global polity' to orient IR [and] deserves praise for constructing intricate and admirable new recipes to theorise IR's relation to the global.' - Scott Hamilton, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Preface Introduction PART I: CONSTRUCTING A THEORY OF A GLOBAL POLITY 1. Post-Internationalism and the Global Polity 2. Global Governmentality and the Domestic Analogy 3. Models of Political Structure in International Relations 4. What Is a (Global) Polity? PART II: A GLOBAL POLITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION? 5. Governing Globality for Local Autonomy 6. Governing Globality for Market Freedom 7. Governing Globality for Human Welfare 8. Constructing a Global Polity