Global Democracy

For and Against: Ethical Theory, Institutional Design and Social Struggles
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-55495-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

Reihe: Democratization and Autocratization Studies

This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere. Concentrating on the democratic deficit of international affairs, it examines the nexus between the phenomenon of international exclusion and the political response of global democracy.

This distinctive position is developed through a critical survey of the principal theories for and against global democracy. The main rival narratives (realism, nationalism, civilizationism, and liberal internationalism) are rebutted on grounds of failing democratic principles of inclusion. Based on a notion of interaction-dependent justice, these theories arguably provide a crucial ideological support to the exclusionary attitude of the current international system. Going beyond these exclusionary paradigms, the book defends a model of cosmo-federalism that is all-inclusive, multilayered and rooted.

The text adopts an interdisciplinary perspective that combines three areas of scholarship: international political theory, international relations and political sociology. Within them, a number of contemporary controversies are analyzed, including the ethical dispute on global justice, the institutional debate on supranationalism, and the political discussion on social emancipatory struggles. From such an interdisciplinary perspective derives an engaged text that will be of interest to students and researchers concerned with the key political aspects of the discussion on globalization and democratic global order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marchetti, Raffaele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction 1. Democracy and Transnational Exclusion Part 2: For Global Democracy 2. Ethical Theory for Global Democracy: All-Inclusive Cosmopolitanism 3. Institutional Design for Global Democracy: Multilayered Cosmopolitanism 4. Social Struggle for Global Democracy: Rooted and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism Part 3: Against Global Democracy 5. Political Communities 6. Liberal Internationalism Part 4: Global Democracy 7. Cosmo-Federalism 8. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Raffaele Marchetti is a Lecturer in International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy.