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How are political communities and forms of democracy being changed and challenged by globalisation? How might they be reshaped in ways that would enhance rather than reduce the limited democracy traditionally available? What are the possibilities for extending representation across borders, and developing participatory democracy more amenable to border-crossing?
Contemporary globalisation is simultaneously weakening national democracy and increasing transnational governance beyond democracy''s traditional scope. However, this book, while critical of conventional state-bound representation and the present lack of transnational democracy, views globalisation as presenting new democratic opportunities as well as threats. It deals substantially with democratisation in the European Union; the world''s most advanced transnational polity but well-known for its `democratic deficits''; and with institutions of global governance and the comparatively neglected question of political agency for establishing transnational democracy. It provides a radical critique of globally hegemonic liberal democracy and neo-liberal globalism, arguing that national democracy has to be strengthened, rather than by-passed, and articulated with new forms of democracy which cross national borders.
Transnational Democracy is a multi-disciplinary volume and covers a variety of perspectives including liberal internationalism and more radical approaches and it will interest students and academics across a range of disciplines, including political science, human geography, international relations, international political economy and sociology. It features studies of the USA, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as the European Union, and work on Australasia, South East Asia and other developing regions.

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Table of contents : Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. Questions of democracy, territoriality and globalisation James Anderson Chapter 2. Reconstituting the modern state Bhikhu Parekh Chapter 3. The limits of federalism in transnational democracy: Beyond the hegemony of the US model John Agnew Chapter 4. Reconceptualising democracy in the European Union Michael Newman Chapter 5. Multi-level citizenship, identity and regions in Europe Joe Painter Chapter 6. Transnational integration and cross-border regions in the European Union Liam O'Dowd Chapter 7. Transnational democracy versus national conflict: Border crossings in Ireland James AndersonDouglas Hamilton Chapter 8. Democratising global institutions: Possibilities, limits and normative foundations Anthony McGrew Chapter 9. Holding the middle ground in the transnationalisation process Kees van der Pijl Chapter 10. The democratic potential of non-governmental organisations Joachim Hirsch Chaoter 11. Contesting corporate globalism: Sources of power, channels for democratisation James Goodman Chapter 12. Relocating the demos? Peter Taylor

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''In an age of globalization and new supra-national forms of social, economic and political organization the geographic form of democracy is a pressing issue. In this book clearly articulated, fresh, stimulating, often exciting, arguments are brought to bear on this question in a compelling manner. For all those interested in the future of democracy and of the state, this is essential reading. It is an important and timely contribution to a debate of increasing importance'' |I Kevin Cox, Ohio State University, USA

''Globalization is increasingly challenging the order of national political spaces. The contributors to this wide-ranging collection put forward ideas about how we might begin to rethink the future of democratic culture within a new transnational framework. A valuable contribution to one of the most critical debates of our time'' |I Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, UK

''This volume provides state-of-the-art analysis of the new architecture of globalism and democracy. Eschewing fashionable obituaries for geography and the nation-state, the authors of this volume are sophisticated about the complex territoriality of contemporary political-economic and cultural change. Transnational Democracy is the thinking person''s companion volume to the anti-globalization movement'' |I Neil Smith, City University of New York, USA