Galtung on Global Democracy

Johan Galtung (advocate of leftism and non-violence, author of many books) has an interesting article, entitled "Alternative Models for Global Democracy" in: Barry Holden, ed., Global Democracy: Key Debates. London-New York: Routledge, 2000. 

 

The article contains formulations like "we, humanity" (p. 143), “world-building” (instead of "nation-building" (p. 143), "The sum of state democracies is not necessarily global democracy" (p 145); and he describes the "people" as the "sovereign" of the world-system (p. 150)

 

His discussion is organized around a typology of actors, some of which are territorial, others non-territorial. [from page 150. See, table below. I hope that the email software transmits this correctly]

 

	Territorial	Non-Territorial
International community	REGIONAL STATE ORGANIZATIONS	UNO & WORLD STATE ORGANIZATIONS
Pillars of modernity	STATES with state logic	TN Corporations with Capital logic
Pillars of post-modernity	LOCAL AUTHORITIES with Town logic	WORLD CIVIL SOCIETY with Organization logic
The sovereign	PEOPLE with People logic	PEOPLE with People logic

- Gert