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Democracy and the Global Order, From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

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Democracy and the Global Order

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From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1 Stories of Democracy: Old and New; 1.1 Models of democracy; 1.2 Democracy, globalization and international governance; 1.3 The limits of democratic political theory and international relations theory; PART II ANALYSIS: THE FORMATION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE MODERN STATE; 2 The Emergence of Sovereignty and the Modern State; 2.1 From divided authority to the centralized state; 2.2 The modern state and the discourse of sovereignty; 3 The Development of the Nation-state and the Entrenchment of Democracy; 3.1 War and militarism3.2 States and capitalism3.3 Liberal democracy and citizenship; 4 The Inter-state System; 4.1 Sovereignty and the Westphalian order; 4.2 The international order and the United Nations system; 4.3 The states system vs. global politics?; 5 Democracy, the Nation-state and the Global Order I; 5.1 Disjuncture 1: international law; 5.2 Disjuncture 2: internationalization of political decision-making; 5.3 Disjuncture 3: hegemonic powers and international security structures; 6 Democracy, the Nation-state and the Global Order II; 6.1 Disjuncture 4: national identity and the globalization of culture6.2 Disjuncture 5: the world economy6.3 The new context of political thought; PART III RECONSTRUCTION: FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRACY; 7 Rethinking Democracy; 7.1 The principle of autonomy; 7.2 The terms of the principle of autonomy; 7.3 The idea of a democratic legal state; 8 Sites of Power, Problems of Democracy; 8.1 Democratic thought experiment; 8.2 Power, life-chances and nautonomy; 8.3 Power clusters; 8.4 Seven sites of power; 9 Democracy and the Democratic Good; 9.1 The democratic public law; 9.2 The obligation(s) to nurture self-determination; 9.3 Ideal, attainable and urgent autonomy9.4 The democratic goodPART IV ELABORATION AND ADVOCACY: COSMOPOLITAN DEMOCRACY; 10 Political Community and the Cosmopolitan Order; 10.1 The requirement of the democratic good: cosmopolitan democracy; 10.2 Democracy as a transnational, common structure of political action; 10.3 New forms and levels of governance; 11 Markets, Private Property and Cosmopolitan Democratic Law; 11.1 Law, liberty and democracy; 11.2 The economic limits to democracy?; 11.3 The rationale of political intervention in the economy; 11.4 The entrenchment of democracy in economic life11.5 Forms and levels of intervention11.6 Private property, 'access avenues' and democracy; 12 Cosmopolitan Democracy and the New International Order; 12.1 Rethinking democracy and the international order: the cosmopolitan model; 12.2 Cosmopolitan objectives: short- and long-term; 12.3 Concluding reflections; Acknowledgements; References and Select Bibliography; Index