Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratising globalisation, developing a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, and arguing for a broader understanding of human rights with a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. - Съдържа: Part I. Theoretical Considerations -- Hard questions in democratic theory: When justice and democracy conflict -- Two concepts of universality and the problem of cultural relativism -- Part II. Democracy and Rights, Personalized and Pluralized -- Embodied politics -- Racism and democracy -- Cultural identity -- Conceptualizing women's human rights -- Part III. Globalizing Democracy in a Human Rights Framework -- Evaluating the claims for a global democracy -- Are human rights and democracy compatible in the context of globalization? -- The global democratic deficit and economic human rights -- Part IV. Current Applications -- Democratic management and the stakeholder idea -- Democratic networks: technological and political -- Terrorism, empathy, and democracy.*