Globalisation and democracy

• Sovereignty

  . State has control of its fate

  Change will stem from built in mechanisms
• Demise of Sovereignty

  . Regional and global connectivity challenge the viability of national decision making

  . International institutions have increased in legitimacy - ICC, UN
• Globalisation

  . Had major impacts on a states ability to achive goals independantly

  . E.G World economy

  Authority of state vs MNCs

  State is dependant upon success of MNCs

  Markets are connected - 2008 financial crisis undermines states ability
• Globalisation - International institutions

  . Nations wanting to work collectively to deal with issues

  moving away from state centred approach
• Globalisation - International law

  . ECHR

  Allows individuals to take state to court

  . Nuremberg trials

  State laws must be transgressed when humanitarian vaues are in conflict
• Globalisation - Culture

  . New forms of communication leads to people taking an international standpoint of issues

  Harder to foster a national identity
• Globalisation - Environment

  . Global isssue

  Global commons

  Trans-boundary pollution
• Impact on democracy

  . Blurs boundaries of domestic politics

  . Changes conditions of political decision making

  . Obscures accountability of nations themselves
• Cosmopolitan democracy

  . Issues are global - Poverty/climate

  New forms of global governance needed to adress issues

  Calls for a union of states which sees global accountability and participation
• Priorities of cosmopolitan democracy

  . Defense of self-determination

  . Common structure of political action

  . Preservation of democratic good
• Cosmopolitan democracy through:

  . New institutions

  Ensuring democratic accountability throughout

  . Global civil society

  global citizenship
• Citizenship

  . Usually linked to state

  . BUT

  State power is eroding and citizenship is linking to netwroks of governance that needs to be politically accountable - union of states
• Changes to existing institutions and citizenship

  . Current institutions are weakly accountable

  . Social movement which incorporates a global citizenship are the real drivers of change - Poverty, Ecological, human rights

  . Internet

  has improved communication and allows citizens to grapple with global issues - reinforces global citizenship
• Giddens

  . globalisation has led to transcontinental issues which has led to the deepening and stretching of social relations
• Danielle Archibugi

  . Extending democratic processes to the global level through unions off states
• Critics of globalisation and cosmpolitan democracy

  . John Tomlinson

  Cultural imperialism - eroding of indigenous culture

  . Westernisation
• John Keane

  . 'Cosmocracy'

  Web of interacting and overlapping structures that have developed dynamically which has led to polity