The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty. Robyn Eckersley. 2004. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 347 pp. $25 paperback.
The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty. Robyn Eckersley. 2004. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 347 pp. $25 paperback.
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绿色国家：重新思考民主和主权。
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10.1017/s1466046606210159
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2006
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David M. Chamberlain
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绿色国家：对民主和主权的重新思考。罗宾·埃克斯利。2004年。麻省理工学院出版社，马萨诸塞州剑桥。347页。平装本，25美元。绿色政治理论家经常对现代民族国家表现出深刻的对立态度。许多这样的思想家谴责民族国家通过鼓励不可持续的经济增长和促进自然资源开采等做法导致生态破坏。另一个经常受到的批评是，民族国家有限的领土主权使它们不足以处理本质上跨国范围的环境问题。在承认这些批评的合法性的同时，罗宾·埃克斯利在她的挑衅性新书《绿色国家：重新思考民主和主权》中为陷入困境的民族国家辩护。在整篇文章中，埃克斯利认为，由于民族国家仍然是世界上主要的社会和政治权力中心，解决环境问题最现实和有效的战略是努力将单个国家转变为更绿色的机构，而不是寻求难以捉摸的超国家解决方案。
The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty . Robyn Eckersley. 2004. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 347 pp. $25 paperback. Green political theorists often express deeply antagonistic attitudes toward the modern nation-state. The nation-state is denounced by many such thinkers for contributing to ecological destruction through the encouragement of unsustainable economic growth and the facilitation of natural resource extraction, among other practices. Another frequent criticism is that the finite territorial sovereignty of nation-states renders them inadequate to deal with environmental problems that are inherently transnational in scope. While recognizing the legitimacy of such critiques, Robyn Eckersley comes to the defense of the beleaguered nation-state in her provocative new work, The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty . Throughout its pages, Eckersley argues that because the nation-state is still the primary locus of social and political power in the world, the most realistic and effective strategy for addressing environmental problems is to work toward transforming individual states into greener institutions, rather than seeking elusive supranational solutions.