This project, conducted by Heikki Patomäki, Mika Rönkkö, and Teivo Teivainen mapped and analyzed the major global democracy initiatives. There was a particular emphasis on initiatives from the South. The project resulted in Global Democracy Initiatives - the Art of Possible NIGD Working paper 2/2002 (issued in May 2002) and a practical strategy for global democratization.

"No previous book has offered a similar overview of different global democracy proposals. The books on cosmopolitan democracy by David Held, Daniele Archibugi and their associates are important theoretical contributions, but less concrete in their analysis of historical and institutional contexts. Some edited collections, such as Barry Holden’s Global Democracy, contain empirically grounded chapters on particular topics, but no one has published a systematic analysis of the range of initiatives scrutinized in our book."

To order a copy of this book, please contact us (nigd@nigd.org) with your mailing address. See also the publication of NIGD’s sister project North-South Dialogues .

We are thankful to the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Development Cooperation) for having funded a large part of the research done for this project.

Other publications derived from this project:

Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen (2003): Globaali Demokratia [Global democracy], Gaudeamus, Helsinki

Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen (2004): A Possible World – Democratic Transformations of Global Institutions, Zed Books (London & New York)