Global Justice and Global Democracy. KU Leuven
What is globalization? And how should our political institutions respond to it? This dissertation formulates and answer to both these questions by relating the ideas of three Enlightenment thinkers to three elements of globalization: globalizing democracy to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, international law to Immanuel Kant and international trade to David Hume. Through a close reading of these authors, the dissertation asks whether globalization is ...