Democracy in a Global World - Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Deen K. Chatterjee is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. He is the author of several books and articles in the areas political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion and culture. Klappentext The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world. Authored by leading political philosophers of our time, they appear here for the first time. The essays challenge and defend assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and legal institution in response to globalization, keeping in focus the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a pluralistic world. Zusammenfassung Deals with issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in globalized world. This work contains essays that challenge and defend assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and legal institution in response to globalization! focusing on the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a pluralistic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Democracy and Globalization Chapter 3 Development Ethics, Democracy, and Globalization Chapter 4 Negotiating the Global and the Local: Situating Transnational Democracy and Human Rights Part 5 Autonomy, Diversity, and Universal Human Rights Chapter 6 Relativism, Self-Determination, and Human Rights Chapter 7 Constitutions and Capabilities Part 8 Nationalism and Global Democracy Chapter 9 The Varieties of Nationalism Chapter 10 Global Democracy: International, Not Cosmopolitan Part 11 Global Public and the New World Order Chapter 12 Rawls' Law of Peoples and the New World Order Chapter 13 The Global Public and Its Problems

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• Authors: Deen K. Chatterjee
• Assisted by: Deen K Chatterjee (Editor), Deen K. Chatterjee (Editor), Chatterjee Deen K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2007
• EAN: 9780742514515
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1451-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Philosophy and the Global Cont; Philosophy and the Global Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy