Democracy in an age of globalisation

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In "Democracy in an Age of Globalisation", Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity.

The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on the economies and political systems of the world, the cultural and social structures of peoples. The scope of its challenges demands solutions, which transcend the powers of the classical nation-state. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: "How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?"

Preface	p. ix
1 The challenges of our times	p. 1
1.1 Complex globalisation	p. 1
1.1.1 The demise of the individual state	p. 1
1.1.2 The plurality of globalisation	p. 2
1.1.3 Two qualifications	p. 6
1.1.4 Only a trend	p. 8
1.2 Two visions	p. 9
1.3 Modernisations	p. 12
1.4 Philosophy as the advocate of humankind	p. 15
Part 1 Qualified democracy	p. 19
2 Consent out of advantage	p. 21
2.1 The authority to compel	p. 21
2.2 Welfare (utilitarianism) or justice?	p. 22
2.3 Legitimatory individualism	p. 24
2.4 The contract as a metaphor	p. 27
2.5 A transcendental exchange	p. 30
3 Principles of justice	p. 35
3.1 A transcendental grammar	p. 35
3.2 Human rights	p. 38
3.3 Negative rights to freedom	p. 41
3.3.1 Integrity of life and limb	p. 41
3.3.2 Freedom of speech and religion	p. 43
3.3.3 The criterion of freedom rights	p. 44
3.4 Positive rights to freedom: social rights	p. 46
3.5 Proto-justice	p. 50
A first list of principles of justice	p. 56
3.6 Solidarity	p. 57
4 Public powers	p. 61
4.1 The task of implementing the law	p. 62
4.2 Separation of powers	p. 67
4.3 Democracy	p. 69
4.3.1 Rule-legitimising democracy	p. 69
4.3.2 Rule-exercising democracy	p. 71
4.3.3 Participatory democracy	p. 76
4.4 The right to be different	p. 78
5 Subsidiarity and federalism	p. 83
5.1 Traditional subsidiarity	p. 83
5.2 Modernisations	p. 89
A Complete list of principles of justice	p. 93
5.3 Federalism	p. 94
6 The demise of the state?	p. 103
6.1 Internal metamorphoses	p. 104
6.1.1 Against a false glorification of the state	p. 104
6.1.2 A look at history	p. 105
6.1.3 A weakened state?	p. 108
6.2 Erosion from outside	p. 112
6.3 An enlightened nation state	p. 117
6.3.1 A neutral concept	p. 117
6.3.2 Five modernisations	p. 121
7 From subject to citizen	p. 131
7.1 Civic virtues	p. 131
7.2 Civic courage and the sense of law	p. 135
7.3 Tolerance and the sense of justice	p. 137
7.4 The sense of state citizenship	p. 144
7.5 The sense of community	p. 147
7.6 Prudence, composure, wisdom	p. 150
Part 2 A subsidiary and federal world republic	p. 157
8 A look at history	p. 159
8.1 Citizen or world citizen	p. 160
8.1.1 Antiquity	p. 160
8.1.2 Seven models	p. 165
8.1.3 Modernity	p. 167
8.2 On perpetual peace	p. 169
8.2.1 Plato and Aristotle	p. 169
8.2.2 A Positive or negative concept?	p. 170
8.2.3 Augustine	p. 172
8.2.4 The Middle Ages	p. 175
8.2.5 Modernity	p. 178
8.3 Kant	p. 179
8.4 After Kant	p. 183
9 A world order without a world state?	p. 187
9.1 A strategic world order	p. 187
9.2 Governance without a state	p. 193
9.3 Democratisation of the world of states	p. 197
9.3.1 Pro arguments	p. 198
9.3.2 Contra arguments	p. 199
9.3.3 Summary	p. 204
9.4 First constructive vetoes	p. 205
10 The complementary world republic	p. 209
10.1 A world republic respectful of differences	p. 209
10.2 Globality instead of globalism	p. 214
10.3 A continental level	p. 216
10.4 The dual global social contract	p. 218
11 Against a global Leviathan	p. 223
11.1 'Soulless despotism'	p. 224
11.2 A global public	p. 227
11.3 State rights	p. 229
11.4 A glance at the United Nations	p. 230
11.4.1 No rudimentary world republic	p. 230
11.4.2 'Glory and misery'	p. 233
11.4.3 Eight proposals for reform	p. 235
12 Global civic virtues	p. 239
12.1 Complementary world citizens	p. 239
12.2 A sense for global rule of law and justice	p. 243
12.3 A global civic sense and a global sense of community	p. 247
Part 3 Institutions and responsibilities	p. 249
13 Peace and the rule of law	p. 251
13.1 Protection of international law	p. 251
13.2 The protection of world citizens	p. 252
13.2.1 Generosity	p. 254
13.2.2 Asylum	p. 256
13.2.3 Crime	p. 257
13.3 Global courts of law	p. 258
13.3.1 A judicial sense of global law	p. 259
13.3.2 The state under the rule of law and the state under the rule of judges	p. 260
13.3.3 Global courts of arbitration?	p. 261
13.4 A global criminal law	p. 262
13.5 Opus iustitiae pax	p. 267
14 Self-determination, secession and intervention	p. 269
14.1 Absolute sovereignty?	p. 269
14.2 Self-determination and secession	p. 271
14.2.1 Which nation?	p. 271
14.2.2 Which self-determination?	p. 274
14.2.3 Collective rights	p. 275
14.2.4 The right to secession	p. 278
14.3 Humanitarian intervention	p. 281
15 A global social and ecological market	p. 287
15.1 Global regulation of competion	p. 287
15.2 A global economic and fiscal policy	p. 290
15.3 Global justice	p. 293
15.3.1 Social standards	p. 293
15.3.2 Development	p. 294
15.4 Global solidarity and global charity	p. 297
15.5 Global environmental protection	p. 300
16 The view ahead	p. 305
16.1 A complex world order	p. 305
16.2 A third democratic revolution	p. 308
16.3 A realistic vision	p. 310
Bibliography	p. 313
Author index	p. 337
Subject index	p. 345

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