Globalization and popular sovereignty : democracy's transnational dilemma
This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty and rethinks it for the transnational domain. It explores how popular sovereignty has historically determined the form of democratic citizenship and how democratic citizenship and legitimacy can be conceived in the transnational sphere in the absence of a global sovereign order. By inquiring into the new global context of popular sovereignty, the book seeks to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy. The author argues: that the challenges of globalization necessitate a rethinking of the concept of popular sovereignty beyond the domain of the nation-state, and that such a rethinking reveals a tension between the particularism of democratic legitimacy and the universalism of cosmopolitan politics. Thus critical attention to the constitutive processes of global governance must become an integral part of democratic theory in the context of globalization. And a principle of transnational popular sovereignty provides the best resources for this purpose
Print Book, English, 2009
Routledge, London, 2009