Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings

'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 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.'                                     Neil Smith, City University of New York

'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 acompelling manner. For all those interested in the future of democracy and of the state, this is essential reading'.
Kevin Cox, Ohio State University

1. Questions of democracy, territoriality and globalisation
2. Reconstituting the modern state
3. The limits of federalism in transnational democracy: beyond
the hegemony of the US model
4. Reconceptualising democracy in the European Union
5. Multi-level citizenship, identity and regions in contemporary
Europe
6. Transnational integration and cross-border regions in the
European Union
7. Transnational democracy versus national conflict: border crossings in Ireland
8. Democratising global institutions: possibilities, limits and
normative foundations
9. Holding the middle ground in the transnationalisation process
10. The democratic potential of non-governmental organisations
11. Contesting corporate globalism: sources of power, channels
for democratisation
12. Relocating the demos