New Limits to Politics? 405, iia 4{F LD, DAWID. um {ppnsqoran Tied 144 CoAMAWNV TES 1. States, moreover, are locked into diverse, fered 10 as muliayssed governance, ‘be thought of as embeded 1 but o lobal order Fiomains ~ what we earl national autonomy have to ‘of governance in which they have becom anderiying the exercise of political authority. Tt ienty and autonomy is undergoing a i hundamental ways. However, it by nwo means follows from ition is either straightforward or perman and intensity of all manner of soci fof states; and the deregulation of capi ‘ly but not only financial capi ‘These very and prospects of New Limits to Pol Givilizing and Democratizing Globalization nor has itevst. "end of politics’ so much as446 Conclusion New Limits to ics? oe ‘This matter is most apparent in Europe, whete the development of the EU has created intensive dicussion about the fare of sovereignty and avtonomy Wii intial nation states But the sous are portant not ust for Europe ane the We but for counties in other parts ofthe work, for exarple Japan and South Korea. "These counties mas recogni new emerying problems, for instance problems com cersing AIDS, migration and new alleges to pease, security and exc prosper wer the boundaries of mationstates In addition, the communis of Es Usa a recom developments show, ae developing inthe context of growing onnestedness across he words major regions This nterconnectednessis marked in 9 whol range of areas from the environment, han rg, trade and Fane to Bsies Uinvrnationolevime.‘Phere are emerging overlapping communities of fate generating common problems within and sero the Eat Aslan region Tn thee words, East i nccesarly pat ofthe global order and & locked into 4 cvesity of Sites of power which shape end determine i fortunes Cobalfransformation hve aifeeted our concept ofthe politcal community ana io patioule our concept ofthe democratic pofcal comnmunity, whieh often get pl Tn the “inner and “outer spheres of i ready undertocd tha he {fusity of democroey depends on rendering polite decison aking aesountale to SStiens ina delimited poe! commanity. It aso understood, moreover, tht Guality of democracy cepends on more than tmrsiy the formal aco czens have to the public sphere andthe polty to pubic delveration and decson-meking. fckuowiedged today that the quay of democracy depends onthe complicated essos whereby eens gain oF lf gun aces fo the resours and prosedures the publi ean ~ acess thet Zeflets complex processes and socal involvements, But its favor oxm and prospects of pola common inlercounoctions among thes, While more counties seek (0c Gracies pow wells now transond the boundaries of incaning of eprescatation (vo should represen whom and on wh ‘the proper form an ne ) Took increasingly thre: The idea of government or of be simply defended as an iden suitable nation-state. The idea of apolitical community’of = can no longer meaningfully be located with Some of the most fundamental forees and processes determining chances within and across pe states, The system of na culated and rearticulated today within complex economi legal and cultural processes and structures whieh li processes and structures are not acknowledged and brought ‘hey will tend to bypass or eireumvent the traditional mechanisms of p ability and regulation. For the locus of effective political pow nal governments ~ effective power is shared, by diverse forces and agencies at national, regio imental) raise questions about where those isues are most appropri the most powerful geopo! pes law and regulate economie and so ture of a "Televant community” is contested. W1 sper realm of |I subject to associations, stats, international cosmopolitan democratic law “The people through communities, ‘Cosmopolitan democracy Diganzations, “The people through set governing communities Radical republicanism Liberal-nterationalsa The people through governments, secountable Snernational organizations and Sternational repimes JTable C1. Civlizing and democratizing contemporary globalization: a summary of three political projects Who should govern? New Limits to Politics? a | thatthe setgovernment of communes in which the publi good ist the fo 28 9182 4 8 | Burmein, 186; Water, 98 Falk 195), The rl sepblcan poets co Hla ad west nk necestary to empower people ig el. g 7 ives and to create communities based on ideas Of egy She isfy 2 harmony wit the nara ensvonmen. For tate Tepabl ue aefh ares || change are to be found in existing (riz) socal movements, sachs th se,2htl Gauls = | rental, women’s and peace movements, which challenge the authority of ue & international agencies a well a onthodoxdofinion ofthe “paica Though peialige i of resistance and empowerment these new socal movements are conceived as pl bebgedeagdaee a ‘ a crucial role in global democratization similar to the role ofthe (old) social moves ERibigeiiiaia 22 sec ay organized abou, in he sul for nap B56 852% Fe nets are engaged in mobilizing transnational com | szains impending global ecological, ecomoi ae 3 FA Freecs nan antchncss 0 ter aciovomens otto Poai fh Z ‘Sualishment of the necessiry conditions for seli-dovel qipgee G2, 2 ° governing communities. Encouraging ad developing in Hille Gad ing to overlapping (local and global) communities of feeee chy a i ew social movements os well as 522222 §22 2 = : vetesz feb B Se Seigze if y G8 the deneratztion and civlzing of glabal order. It represents pile Gig, of thane govermune’ which ie proud i aashbe a5 2 2h ies of fate” and rest of ben as : projet, the como stl. gad 2 arrangements foro sip begat : operate Beyond the scope ei tage fee 3G 2 ink, 1998 Arenbug et go Pee Soba 5S sive ofa state wi te drpueaia b2 [3 person capable of mel uo al arom vepegesieees ae ‘a growing medi girly ph? © © ‘rations and dicoures of ther ‘he horizons of one's EREEReaTTEEEES |, L meaning, and increasing ‘understanding. Pe SEpEERgeaagede [8 be better equippot : 3 msboundary issues and proce 3 [8 ipping communities of fate. In he cosmopolitan pro, : fale ‘ many contemporary forms op able eae | yand slab gece idig : to have acess, and mcm Paar atiptiste ‘udemeccatepoliteal commu bho oka ll C4 nium necsstanily describes world where citizens enjoy mul eof gi j ships. Faced with overlzping communitve of fate ey need be eT bi ats of theo corms, ut a the wie einen whch they qe og s |2 “| stthe wider global order. Istitu oe ee : tok ga [t ak peopl together regu Be £2 2 = particular nation-states ia which they were born or brought up.450 Conclusion the cosmopolitan position maintain that democracy led process’, By a double-sided process ~ or process deepening of democracy Democracy for the ‘access to, mediate between and render accountable the social, at cut across and transform thei ies. The core of this project involves reconceiving legit ich di from its and, instead, articulates OF course, whether the democrat Samatubute of bse demosaiearangemens | ence mou depend Indeed, any tak Principle, be entrenched and drawn on in dverse ios and genorte cons and subnational xin, to nao slates, regions the proves of disconnection has esd nee ae difsed ‘below projet is in favour nflicts as the 2 alba demo “Asian vay" of democracy chomplona cry championed, wi ditions and ideas : progressive, incremental change, geop’ yencies and practices (see Held, 1995, Mn refers 10 those processes underpinning a ig together and expanding hum regional and intercontinental change and develo- ld be easy tobe pesiisic abo ‘of democracy, and about need t0 be ret ch are engende: one must452 Conclusion forall its weaknesses — an enduring example of how nations might (and sometimes do) cooperate better fo resolve, and resolve fairly, common problems. In addition, the development of a powerful regional body such as the European Union is a remarkable state of affairs. Just over fifty years ago Europe was at the point of self-destruction, Since that moment Europe bas created new mechanisms of collaboration, new i ‘meats of human rights enforcement and pol ions in order not only to hold member states to account across a broad range of issues, but to pool aspects of their Methodological Appendix sting the terms of globalization ~ not just eorps such as the environmental movement and the womer jew" voices of an emergent ‘transnational ci [Conference on the Environméit, the Cairo Conference on Population Cont Beijing Women’s Conference. In short, there are tendencies at work seeking to estab- lish new forms of public life and new ways of debating regional and global issue ‘These are development, and there are no guarantees thet balance of p ‘no guarantees that SIACS can be protected and aurtur processes of transformation described in this volume suggests that SIACS ate being recontextualized, repositioned and to an extent tra ‘and global processes. Our poli cherished notions ~ a circumscribed political realm dist sand choice of ease study cout Indicators of international Enmeshment