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Approaches from Macpherson’s perspective to globalization and environmental degradation are constructed. His support for robust democracy bears on both these problems, since strong citizen opposition to the negative effects of globalization and to environmental threats is a prerequisite for resistance to them by national leaders and cross-border social movements. Macpherson’s critique of the ‘the cult of economic growth’ is especially pertinent.
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In this chapter, as in virtually all literature on the topic, the terms ‘state’ and ‘nation’ are used interchangeably in abstraction from the phenomena of bi- or multi-national states—for example, Belgium, Canada, and Spain—where sometimes there are differences among attitudes towards globalism between the nations of a single state.
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Cunningham, F. (2019). Global Problems. In: The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94920-8_7
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