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Democratizing globalization and globalizing democracy

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Abstract

The article begins with a critique of the failure of the present world order, based on its exclusivity and reliance on a traditional international relations paradigm, including nationalism and cultural particularism. The post-cold war impetus toward universal liberalism has brought about conditions rendering this paradigm untenable. Globalization requires a new political order if universal economic liberalism is to be stable. However, there remains a clash of paradigms rather than a clash of civilizations, and a new balance is needed between realist, liberal, and Marxist paradigms. An alternative world order will require democratizing globalization and globalizing democracy and will rest on articulating radical new conceptions and practices of citizenship bridging local, national, regional, and global political spaces. New concepts and values such as global justice, global solidarity, global democracy, and global citizenship are taking form and informing the course of the democratic revolution on the global scale.

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Author(s): Gills B

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Year: 2002

Volume: 581

Issue: 1

Pages: 158-171

ISSN (print): 0002-7162

ISSN (electronic): 1552-3349

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716202058001014

DOI: 10.1177/0002716202058001014

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