Global Democracy and Exclusion

This book explores the boundaries of democratic communities, examining who is included in these boundaries and governed by them. Focus is placed on the consequences of globalization for democracy, especially in light of the exclusion that global policies impose on many citizens.

The essays within this collection discuss the question of whether democracy implies exclusion or the construction of borders; and if this is the case, what form the exclusion or borders would take, and whether it is possible to justify them. More importantly, if democracy does require some kind of exclusion, is the idea of global democracy then rendered paradoxical? Is it possible to create a democracy on a global level?

In the current world order, examining the case for global democracy is crucial; the essays in this book reflect this importance, and present a state–of–the–art analysis of the normative foundations of global democracy.

1. Introduction (Ronald Tinnevelt and Helder De Schutter, Radboud University Nijmegen and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

2. Cosmopolitanism and human rights: Radicalism in a global age (Robert Fine, University of Warwick).

3. The Resurgent Idea of World Government (Campbell Craig, University of Southampton).

4. Structuring Global Democracy: Political Communities, Universal Human Rights, and Transnational Representation (Carol Gould, Temple University).

5. Federative Global Democracy (Eric Cavallero, Southern Connecticut State University).

6. Interaction–Dependent Justice and the Problem of International Exclusion (Raffaele Marchetti, LUISS University and University of Naples L Orientale).

7. Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Rule of Law (William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University).

8. A–Legality: Postnationalism and the Question of Legal Boundaries (Hans Lindahl, University of Tilburg).

9. The conflicting loyalties of statism and globalism: Can global democracy resolve the liberal conundrum? (Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah).

10. Universal Human Rights as a Shared Identity. Impossible? Necessary? (Andreas Follesdal, University of Oslo).

11. Motivating the Global Demos (Daniel Weinstock, University of Montreal).

12. Is liberal Nationalism incompatible with global democracy? (Helder De Schutter and Ronald Tinnevelt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Radboud University Nijmegen).

13. Immigration, nationalism, and human rights (John Exdell, Kansas State University).

Index.

Ronald Tinnevelt is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is co–editor of Between Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty (2006), Does Truth Matter? (2008), and Nationalism and Global Justice (2009). He was recently awarded a Vidi scholarship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a 5 year project on the relationship between moral and institutional cosmopolitanism.

Helder De Schutter is an Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He is co–editor of Nationalism and Global Justice: David Miller and His Critics (with R. Tinnevelt, 2009). He has also recently published articles in Inquiry, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Language Problems and Language Planning, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.