Product Description

The scope and powers of international institutions - the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization - continue to grow with globalization. If democratic values are still sought after, then their deficit at international level must be addressed. This book surveys the range of proposals on the table, with an emphasis on feasibility. It describes and evaluate a wide spectrum of democratic reform proposals for the UN, World Bank and IMF, the WTO and international judicial institutions. It explores innovative ideas for empowering global civil society; a Global Truth Commission; referenda and a World Parliament; a debt arbitration mechanism and global taxation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1391616 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'Amid all the cant about democracy and globalization, it is refreshing to have a book that takes a democratization that is global seriously, as an objective and as a process. This book adds substance to the slogan that another world is possible.' - Immanuel Wallerstein 'Does it sometimes seem to you that it is impossible to transform the global system to make it more democratic? Heikki Patomaki and Teivo Teivainen provide the most comprehensive guide of proposals to democratize the global institutions and create new ones. This is a book for all of those who want to engage in practical projects of democratic change.' - Michael Hardt, co-author of 'Empire'

About the Author
Dr Heikki Patomaki is professor of international relations at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Democratising Globalisation (Zed Books, 2001) and After International Relations (Routledge, 2002). Dr Teivo Teivainen is director of the Program on Democracy and Global Transformation at the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. He is the author of Enter Economism, Exit Politics (Zed Books, 2002).