to a Cosmopolitan Order?
The ‘Battle in Seattle’ 1999
David Held
Some works:
Held, David, Models of Democracy, 3rd
Edition (Polity Press, 2007).
Held, David. Global covenant. Polity
Press, 2004.
Held, David; Koenig-Archibugi, M (eds.).
Taming globalization: Frontiers of
Governance. Polity Press, 2003.
Held, David; McGrew, A (eds.). The
Global Transformations Reader: An
Introduction to the globalization Debate.
Polity Press, 2003
Held’s Key Idea
Increasing globalization means nation-states are
losing control in key policy areas.
We are seeing the `unbundling’ of the relationship
between
Sovereignty
Territoriality
Political power
Thus, we need to consider moving toward some forms
of transnational democracy.
Key Questions for Held
Can transnational democracy work?
Is globalization really so severe a threat to democracy
as we know it?
Does Held put forth an unsustainable conception of
state sovereignty as once absolute, now eroding?
Globalization and unbundling
Specific types of `unbundling’ of sovereignty
IGOs and the legalization (constitutionalization) of the
global system. WTO, IMF, World Bank, EU—all extend
aspects of the rule of law (political power) above the
state.
Also, G8, G20, etc.
International Networks of actors: central bankers,
environmental ministers, judges (Slaughter’s thesis)
Globalization and Unbundling cont.
Other `unbundling’ actors
MNCs and related actors, including international
chambers of commerce, establishing their own trans-
state regulatory mechanisms.