Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social critique -- Critical methods -- The programme of critical theory -- Critical paradigms -- Deficits of national liberty -- Deficits of international liberty -- Dilemmas of local recognition -- Dilemmas of transnational recognition -- Intercultural polylogue : cultural and political justice -- Extraterritorial, strategic, and global interactions : social, economic, and security justice.

"Based on a critique of liberal and libertarian contradictions with their conflictual consequences and on analyses of critical social theories and perspectives from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, and Asia), as well as the Global North, this book seeks to address tensions of global social misrecognition and injustice. It deals with the dispute over particular and universal norms on local, regional, and global levels, extra-territorial social recognition of the global poor, strategic socialism, threats of global hegemony, authoritarianism, and war in light of various conflicts"-- Provided by publisher.