Authority and the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements
shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of
inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its
possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders be
structured, such that, even if we can now speak of law beyond state
borders, no emergent global legal order is possible that does not include
without excluding? Is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible that
neither postulates the possibility of realising an all-inclusive global legal
order nor accepts resignation or political paralysis in the face of the
globalisation of inclusion and exclusion? These pressing questions guide
this book, opening up a vast field of enquiry that demands integrating
sociological, doctrinal and philosophical perspectives and insights.