Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

by David Held

Book Overview

Democracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet the future of democracy is increasingly uncertain. Key assumptions of democratic thinking and practice are being undermined by diverse sites of social economic power on the one hand, and by dense networks of regional and global interconnectedness on the other. States and societies are enmeshed in webs of international conditions and processes as never before. Democracy and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726868
• ISBN13: 9780804726863
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"