Democracy in an age of globalisation / Otfried Höffe.

1. The challenges of our times -- 1.1. Complex globalisation -- 1.1.1. The demise of the individual state -- 1.1.2. The plurality of globalisation -- 1.1.3. Two qualifications -- 1.1.4. Only a trend -- 1.2. Two visions -- 1.3. Modernisations -- 1.4. Philosophy as the advocate of humankind -- Part 1. Qualified democracy -- 2. Consent out of advantage -- 2.1. The authority to compel -- 2.2. Welfare (utilitarianism) or justice? -- 2.3. Legitimatory individualism -- 2.4. The contract as a metaphor -- 2.5. A transcendental exchange -- 3. Principles of justice -- 3.1. A transcendental grammar -- 3.2. Human rights -- 3.3. Negative rights to freedom -- 3.3.1. Integrity of life and limb -- 3.3.2. Freedom of speech and religion -- 3.3.3. The criterion of freedom rights -- 3.4. Positive rights to freedom: social rights -- 3.5. Proto-justice -- A first list of principles of justice -- 3.6. Solidarity -- 4. Public powers -- 4.1. The task of implementing the law -- 4.2. Separation of powers -- 4.3. Democracy -- 4.3.1. Rule-legitimising democracy -- 4.3.2. Rule-exercising democracy -- 4.3.3. Participatory democracy -- 4.4. The right to be different -- 5. Subsidiarity and federalism -- 5.1. Traditional subsidiarity -- 5.2. Modernisations -- A Complete list of principles of justice -- 5.3. Federalism -- 6. The demise of the state? -- 6.1. Internal metamorphoses -- 6.1.1. Against a false glorification of the state -- 6.1.2. A look at history -- 6.1.3. A weakened state? -- 6.2. Erosion from outside -- 6.3. An enlightened nation state -- 6.3.1. A neutral concept -- 6.3.2. Five modernisations -- 7. From subject to citizen -- 7.1. Civicvirtues -- 7.2. Civic courage and the sense of law -- 7.3. Tolerance and the sense of justice -- 7.4. The sense of state citizenship -- 7.5. The sense of community -- 7.6. Prudence, composure, wisdom -- Part 2. A subsidiary and federal world republic -- 8. A look at history -- 8.1. Citizen or world citizen -- 8.1.1. Antiquity -- 8.1.2. Seven models -- 8.1.3. Modernity -- 8.2. On perpetual peace -- 8.2.1. Plato and Aristotle -- 8.2.2. A Positive or negative concept? -- 8.2.3. Augustine -- 8.2.4. The Middle Ages -- 8.2.5. Modernity -- 8.3. Kant -- 8.4. After Kant -- 9. A world order without a world state? -- 9.1. A strategic world order -- 9.2. Governance without a state -- 9.3. Democratisation of the world of states -- 9.3.1. Pro arguments -- 9.3.2. Contra arguments -- 9.3.3. Summary -- 9.4. First constructive vetoes -- 10. The complementary world republic -- 10.1. A world republic respectful of differences -- 10.2. Globality instead of globalism -- 10.3. A continental level -- 10.4. The dual global social contract -- 11. Against a global Leviathan -- 11.1. 'soulless despotism' -- 11.2. A global public -- 11.3. State rights -- 11.4. A glance at the United Nations -- 11.4.1. No rudimentary world republic -- 11.4.2. 'Glory and misery' -- 11.4.3. Eight proposals for reform -- 12. Global civic virtues -- 12.1. Complementary world citizens -- 12.2. A sense for global rule of law and justice -- 12.3. A global civic sense and a global sense of community -- Part 3. Institutions and responsibilities -- 13. Peace and the rule of law -- 13.1. Protection of international law -- 13.2. The protection of world citizens -- 13.2.1. Generosity -- 13.2.2. Asylum -- 13.2.3. Crime -- 13.3. Global courts of law -- 13.3.1. A judicial sense of global law -- 13.3.2. The state under the rule of law and the state under the rule of judges -- 13.3.3. Global courts of arbitration? -- 13.4. A global criminal law -- 13.5. Opus iustitiae pax -- 14. Self-determination, secession and intervention -- 14.1. Absolute sovereignty? -- 14.2. Self-determination and secession -- 14.2.1. Which nation? -- 14.2.2. Which self-determination? -- 14.2.3. Collective rights -- 14.2.4. The right to secession -- 14.3. Humanitarian intervention -- 15. A global social and ecological market -- 15.1. Global regulation of competition -- 15.2. A global economic and fiscal policy -- 15.3. Global justice -- 15.3.1. Social standards -- 15.3.2. Development -- 15.4. Global solidarity and global charity -- 15.5. Global environmental protection -- 16. The view ahead -- 16.1. A complex world order -- 16.2. A third democratic revolution -- 16.3. A realistic vision.