Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping global democracy / Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibu gi and Raffaele Marchetti -- Citizens or stakeholders? Exclusion, equal ity and legitimacy in global stakeholder democracy / Terry Macdonald -- Models of global democracy: in defense of cosmo-federalism / Raffaele Marchetti -- Is democratic legitimacy possible for international instit utions? / Thomas Christiano -- Cosmopolitan democracy: neither a catego ry mistake nor a categorical imperative / Andreas F²llesdal -- Regional versus global democracy: advantages and limitations / Carol C. Gould - - From peace between democracies to global democracy / Daniele Archibug i -- Flexible government for a globalized world / Bruno S. Frey -- Towa rds the metamorphosis of the United Nations: a proposal for establishin g global democracy / Tim Murithi -- Civil society and global democracy: an assessment / Jonas Tallberg and Anders Uhlin -- Global capitalism a nd global democracy: subverting the other? / B. S. Chimni -- Global dem ocratization and domestic analogies / Mathias Koenig-Archibugi -- Globa l democracy for a partially joined-up world: toward a multi-level syste m of public power and democratic governance? / Kate Macdonald -- The pr omise and peril of global democracy / Richard A. Falk.

"Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of gover nment, but few people would regard international relations as governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of global democracy b e justified? Which models of global politics should contemporary democr ats endorse and which should they reject? What are the most promising p athways to global democratic change? To what extent does the extension of democracy from the national to the international level require a rad ical rethinking of what democratic institutions should be? This book an swers these questions by providing a sustained dialogue between scholar s of political theory, international law, and empirical social science. By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our century: globa lizing democracy and democratizing globalization"-- Provided by publ isher.