In the last decade, Held published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encompasses the entire world.
The democratic globalization movement started to get public attention when New York Times reported its demonstration to contest a World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington, November 1999.
The movement suggests to do it gradually by building a limited number of democratic global institutions in charge of a few crucial fields of common interest.
The movement suggests to do it gradually by building a limited number of democratic global institutions in charge of a few crucial fields of common interest.
In the last decade they published several books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encapsulates the entire planet.
Richard Falk has developed the idea from an international law perspective, Ulrich Beck from a sociological approach and Jürgen Habermas has elaborate the normative principles.