Core topics:

global governance – Held’s model of cosmopolitan democracy – nationalist concerns: shared identity, shared language – agency- and interest-based accounts of global democracy – global civil society

Annotation

Suppose we have a conception what global justice demands. The question arises, how are the cosmopolitan ideals about justice and other desirable values/principles to be implemented? This is where the topic of global democratic rule comes into the picture. Gillian Brock contraposes optimistic and sceptical positions vis-à-vis the idea of global democracy, as represented by David Held and Will Kymlicka, and adds some of her own arguments. Goodhart, although himself a supporter of global democratic arrangements, points out that hopes for the global civil society playing the same irreplaceable role as do its domestic counterparts are seriously flawed.

Core Readings

Brock, Gillian. 2009. Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account. Oxford: Oxford UP, 84–113

Goodhart, Michael.  2005. “Civil society and the problem of global democracy”. Democratization 12(1): 1–21

Total 50 pages.