Globalization and Popular Sovereignty : Democracy's Transnational Dilemma

ISBN-13: 9780415670425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Adam Lupel

Opis

This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty, seeking to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction: Popular Sovereignty and Globalization  2. Trajectories of Popular Sovereignty  3. The Liberal Model of Popular Sovereignty: John Locke  4. The Republican Model of Popular Sovereignty: Jean-Jacques Rousseau  5. The Deliberative Model of Popular Sovereignty: Jürgen Habermas  6. Responses to Globalization (I) Habermas’s Postnational Constellation  7. Responses to Globalization (II) David Held’s Cosmopolitan Democracy and Global Civil Society  8. Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Politics of Popular Sovereignty

O autorze

Adam Lupel is Editor at the International Peace Institute in New York, USA. His work has appeared previously in Constellations, Critical Sociology, Globalizations, and Polity. Most recently, he co-edited "Peace Operations and Organized Crime", a special issue of International Peacekeeping (also published by Routledge).