Property, Power and Politics: Why We Need to Rethink the World Power System

Jean-Philippe Robé

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This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations led to the rejection of democracy and to the rise in inequality, Robe offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing today, from climate change to world hunger and poverty.

This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. Cutting across disciplines of law, politics and economics, it explores how multinational enterprises morphed into world political organisations with global reach and power, but without the corresponding responsibilities.

In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to the rejection of democracy as an ineffective system of government and to the rise in inequality, Robe offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

General Introduction;
Part 1 ~ Property;
Introduction to Part 1;
The Meaning of Property;
The Modern Constitutional Mode of Government;
Sovereignty and Property;
From Political Enterprise to the Modern State;
The Mixing of Democracy and Despotism;
Part 2 ~ Firms in the World Power System;
Introduction to Part 2;
Firms;
The Features of Business Corporations;
The Spreading of the Corporate System and Its Consequences;
Coping with Firms;
Towards a Sustainable World Power System.

Jean-Philippe Robe is a member of the Paris and New York Bars. He teaches law at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris and is an equity partner in one of the largest US law firms.