Provides a new legal-sociological theory of democracy, reflecting the impact of global law on national political institutions. This title is also available as O

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

The dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crimes against humanity, and the notorious 'democratic

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-