{"product_id":"the-green-state-rethinking-democracy-and-sovereignty","title":"The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would constitute a definitively \"green\" state? In this important new book  Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state  the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state  and the neoliberal market-focused stateseeking  she writes  \"to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo.\" In recent years  most environmental scholars and environmentalists have characterized the sovereign state as ineffectual and have criticized nations for perpetuating ecological destruction. Going consciously against the grain of much current thinking  this book argues that the state is still the preeminent political institution for addressing environmental problems. States remain the gatekeepers of the global order  and greening the state is a necessary step  Eckersley argues  toward greening domestic and international policy and law. The Green State seeks to connect the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with contemporary theories about the state  democracy  and justice. Eckersleys proposed \"critical political ecology\" expands the boundaries of the moral community to include the natural environment in which the human community is embedded. This is the first book to make the vision of a \"good\" green state explicit  to explore the obstacles to its achievement  and to suggest practical constitutional and multilateral arrangements that could help transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green democratic state. Rethinking the state in light of the principles of ecological democracy ultimately casts it in a new role: that of an ecological steward and facilitator of transboundary democracy rather than a selfish actor jealously protecting its territory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946046287925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262550563","price":38.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262550567.jpg?v=1769920598","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-green-state-rethinking-democracy-and-sovereignty","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}