This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and will advance the argument that a new degree of transparency and accountability on a global scale is necessary to address the threat of climate change. The volume will analyse how global governance could become more democratic and consequently more responsive to the challenge of climate change. As economic globalization has accelerated since 1945, international institutions have done a remarkable job in facilitating global communication and commerce but have been far less effective in protecting the global commons.

Addresses the relationship between democracy and global climate change Expands upon the new but rapidly growing field of research in cosmopolitan democracy Presents an original and transformative critique to the seminal concept of the Tragedy of the Commons Valuable for upper division and graduate students in environmental and social sciences as well as in political sciences and international relations

Inhalt

1. Climate Change and Frontiers of Democracy.- 2. Nationalism and The End of Nature.- 3. The Cold War and the Anthropocene.- 4. The Tragedy of a False Dichotomy.- 5. Transcending the Tragedy of the Commons.- 6. Governing Ourselves.-7. Democracy Beyond the Nation State.- 8. Global Democracy.