Globalizing democracy or democratizing globalism?(Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings)(Book review) From: Human Rights & Human Welfare | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Weinert, Matthew S. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Transnational Democracy: Political Spaces and Border Crossings edited by James Anderson. London: Routledge, 2002. 224pp.

"Globalisation is putting democracy in question and is itself being questioned as undemocratic," declares James Anderson in the first chapter of Transnational Democracy (6). "Its border crossings are undermining the traditional territorial basis of democracy and creating new political spaces which need democratizing" (Ibid.). We are thus confronted wit...

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