New Public Sphere in an Emerging Global Polity: Prospects for the Issue of Climate Change

Authors

  • Mr. Muhammad Zubair Khan

  • Dr. Allah Nawaz

Keywords:

Global polity, New Public Sphere, Global civil society, Climate change, information and communication technologies

Abstract

State has generally been considered, internally and externally as the most powerful independent political authority. However, it has to engage with civil society and public sphere, the two significant components of nation-state polity at home. Globalization has profound impact on this power structure and shifted it to global level. Globalization also brought with it mundane issues like climate change which the state alone is incapable to cope with. Several powerful states and MNCs even become obstacle in fighting it. Civil society organizations (CSOs) with their limited resources are combating this issue that threatens human existence on this planet. However, ICTs enabled new public sphere brings in a ray of hope by opening new prospects for CSOs to deal with this threat. This article is meant to juxtapose the diversity of research-findings into a compact piece of knowledge and show strengths of NPS for civil society in perspective of climate change.

How to Cite

New Public Sphere in an Emerging Global Polity: Prospects for the Issue of Climate Change. (2012). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 12(B12), 25-32. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/446

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New Public Sphere in an Emerging Global Polity: Prospects for the Issue of Climate Change

Published

2012-10-17

How to Cite

New Public Sphere in an Emerging Global Polity: Prospects for the Issue of Climate Change. (2012). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 12(B12), 25-32. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/446