David Held 
Democracy and the Global Order 
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.

Mục lục

Part I: Introduction. .

1. Stories of Democracy: Old and New.

Part II: Analysis: The Formation and Displacement of the
Modern State.

2. The Emergence of Sovereignty and the Modern State.

3. The Development of the Nation-State and the Entrenchment of
Democracy.

4. The Inter-State System.

5. Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global Order I.

6. Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global Order II.

Part III: Reconstruction: Foundations of Democracy. .

7. Rethinking Democracy.

8. Sites of Power, Problems of Democracy.

9. Democracy and the Democratic Good.

Part IV: Elaboration and Advocacy: Cosmopolitan
Democracy. .

10. Political Community and the Cosmopolitan Order.

11. Markets, Private Property and Cosmopolitan Democratic
Law.

12. Cosmopolitan Democracy and the New International Order.

References and Select Bibliography.

Index.

Giới thiệu về tác giả

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science