Question

discuss the interface between globalisation state and civil society?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Recently, there has been much discussion of ‘global civil society’. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the same kinds of institutions and practices as are found in national societies? Or do we need new tools of description and analysis? This article considers various theories of global civil society and the extent to which they map onto traditional concepts of civil society. It concludes that global civil society may express the same mixture of strengths and weaknesses as the parent concept of civil society, but with additional features of its own that may—somewhat surprisingly—make it more robust than the earlier concept from which it derives.

Answer 2

they mean that in the literal sense their activities are global in every dimension and with respect to every area of life, moral and intellectual as well as material or practical. ‘The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, and establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. … In the place of old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so in the intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature’ (1962, pp. 37–38). In this mixture of admiration and repulsion for the achievements of the bourgeoisie, we get a foretaste of the conflicting attitudes, born of the conflicting tendencies that go towards its shaping, that are held towards ‘global civil society’ today. For a fascinating account of the global influence and history of the Manifesto itself, see Puchner