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Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of
government, but few people would regard international relations as
governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of
global democracy be justified? Which models of global politics
should contemporary democrats endorse and which should they reject?
What are the most promising pathways to global democratic change?
To what extent does the extension of democracy from the national to
the international level require a radical rethinking of what
democratic institutions should be? This book answers these
questions by providing a sustained dialogue between scholars of
political theory, international law, and empirical social science.
By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it
offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our
century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization.
Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of
government, but few people would regard international relations as
governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of
global democracy be justified? Which models of global politics
should contemporary democrats endorse and which should they reject?
What are the most promising pathways to global democratic change?
To what extent does the extension of democracy from the national to
the international level require a radical rethinking of what
democratic institutions should be? This book answers these
questions by providing a sustained dialogue between scholars of
political theory, international law, and empirical social science.
By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it
offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our
century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization.
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Debating Cosmopolitics (Paperback)
Daniele Archibugi; Contributions by Andrew Strauss, Craig Calhoun, David Chandler, David Held, …
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Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared
democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While
Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance
of their privileges - freedom of speech, security, wealth - an
increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of
poverty, famine and war. What is needed, the writers here-suggest
is, a deliberate decision to extend the principles and values of
democracy to the sphere of international relations. Recent
experience does not bode well, but their arguments, which range
from reform of the United Nations, reduction of military weapons,
additional power for international judiciary institutions and an
increase in aid to developing countries, urge new and inspired
action.
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