inadequate to the task of radically re-situating the state and the concept of statehood as a basis for combatting transnational and global environmental problems. State Power and National Community under the Global Neoliberal Order Declining to accept that calls for transnational and cosmopolitan justice and democracy are sufficient endpoints for fully understanding the moral contours of the relationships between states, societies, and world politics, Robyn Eckersley (2007) has called for a and “rescuing reframing, of national identities so that they take on a more cosmopolitan character” (p. 675). For Eckersley, this rescue mission acknowledges the importance of both the power of nation-states and of membership in a national community for enabling meaningful political action, especially at the global level. Ultimately, finding solutions to global problems requires a reframing of the nation-state, its place in global politics, and its relationship to national civil society (Eckersley 2007). Although state power has shifted because of the rapid acceleration of both globalization and transnational networks, Compagnon et al (2012) argue that fully functioning states (as opposed to limited and failed states) retain exclusive rights of control over a particular territory. Likewise, they argue that in the context of global environmental governance and the proliferation of hybridized authority structures, the state still ultimately determines the success or failure of these governance mechanisms and whether or not they can act within certain contexts (Compagnon et al 2012). Since states are often ultimately responsible for their own environmental successes, they also tend to be highly responsible for environmental degradation within their borders. Eckersley (2005), for example, argues that radical political ecologists focused on developing global structures of environmental protection tend to downplay and overlook the responsibility that states have in perpetuating environmental destruction.
inadequate to the task of radically re-situating the state and the concept of statehood as a basis for combatting transnational and global environmental problems. State Power and National Community under the Global Neoliberal Order Declining to accept that calls for transnational and cosmopolitan justice and democracy are sufficient endpoints for fully understanding the moral contours of the relationships between states, societies, and world politics, Robyn Eckersley (2007) has called for a “rescuing and reframing, of national identities so that they take on a more cosmopolitan character” (p. 675). For Eckersley, this rescue mission acknowledges the importance of both the power of nation-states and of membership in a national community for enabling meaningful political action, especially at the global level. Ultimately, finding solutions to global problems requires a reframing of the nation-state, its place in global politics, and its relationship to national civil society (Eckersley 2007). Although state power has shifted because of the rapid acceleration of both globalization and transnational networks, Compagnon et al (2012) argue that fully functioning states (as opposed to limited and failed states) retain exclusive rights of control over a particular territory. Likewise, they argue that in the context of global environmental governance and the proliferation of hybridized authority structures, the state still ultimately determines the success or failure of these governance mechanisms and whether or not they can act within certain contexts (Compagnon et al 2012). Since states are often ultimately responsible for their own environmental successes, they also tend to be highly responsible for environmental degradation within their borders. Eckersley (2005), for example, argues that radical political ecologists focused on developing global structures of environmental protection tend to downplay and overlook the responsibility that states have in perpetuating environmental destruction.
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