David Held (born 1951) is a British political theorist and a prominent figure within the field of international relations. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This is a list of political philosophers, including some who may be better known for their work in other areas of philosophy Together with Daniele Archibugi, he has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitanism, and is a widely acclaimed scholar on issues of globalisation. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single Moral community. Globalization (or globalisation) in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones
Held is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. Graham Wallas ( May 31, 1858 - August 9, 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist educationalist and a leader The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the He is also a co-founder of Polity Press. Polity Press is an international publisher in the social sciences and humanities
Major works
- Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas (1989)
- Models of Democracy (1987), fully revised 2nd edition (1996), 3rd edition (2006)
- Political Theory and the Modern State (1989)
- Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (1995)
- Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, co-author (1999)
- Globalization/Anti-Globalization co-author (2002), fully revised 2nd edition (2007)
- Cosmopolitanism: A Defence (2003)
- Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus (2004)
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