In "Democracy in an Age of Globalisation", Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity.

The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on the economies and political systems of the world, the cultural and social structures of peoples. The scope of its challenges demands solutions, which transcend the powers of the classical nation-state. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: "How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?"

Comprehensive treatment of the philosophical foundations of globalisation Theory is placed in a profound historical and systematic context Institutional conclusions of great specificity

Autorentext
Otfried Höffe, geboren 1943, ist Professor für Philosophie und Leiter der Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie an der Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, ist einer der produktivsten und einflussreichsten Denker der Gegenwart.
Er ist Mitglied der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina und erstes ausländisches Mitglied der Teheraner Akademie für Weltweisheit und Philosophie. Er ist Ehrendoktor der Universität (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre/Brasilien und Träger des Karl Vossler-Preises für wissenschaftliche Werke von literarischem Rang.

Inhalt
Qualified democracy.- The challenges of our times.- Consent out of advantage.- Principles of justice.- Public powers.- Subsidiarity and federalism.- The demise of the state?.- From subject to citizen.- A subsidiary and federal world republic.- A look at history.- A world order without a world state?.- The complementary world republic.- Against a global Leviathan.- Global civic virtues.- Institutions and responsibilities.- Peace and the rule of law.- Self-determination, secession and intervention.- A global social and ecological market.- The view ahead.