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Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2007

Jerry Pubantz
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Extract

Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization. By Michael Goodhart. New York: Routledge, 2005. 256p. $95.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Globalization, which had its modern origins in the capitalist expansion of the nineteenth century, has reached a level of development that challenges the sovereign independence, power, and authority of the nation-state, the primary actor in international politics for the last three hundred years. In so doing, it undermines popular sovereignty as traditionally understood in contemporary democracies. In his book, Michael Goodhart provides a tightly reasoned analysis of globalization's challenge to sovereignty and democratic theory, and puts forward a provocative redefinition of democracy that, he argues, can withstand globalization, even flourish in a globalized world.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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