The project of political inclusion of cosmopolitan democracy: democracy and human beings in global governance

The sovereign state as the centre of political power. The Westphalia System. Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Thought. Twentieth-century International Political Theory. Self-Determination and Non-intervention. From the world of states to the citizens of the world. Inclusion and world arrangement: steps forward and failures. Something goes wrong in the current system of global governance: the democratic deficit. Recent failures in the global governance system: concentrated power and wide-spread suffering. Cosmopolitan Democracy and the question of inclusion and exclusion. The project of Cosmopolitan Democracy: interrelated levels of governance and the world constitution.