This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere by examining the nexus between the phenomenon of international exclusion and the political response of global democracy.

Raffaele Marchetti is a Lecturer in International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Democracy and Transnational Exclusion Part 2: For Global Democracy 2. Ethical Theory for Global Democracy: All-Inclusive Cosmopolitanism 3. Institutional Design for Global Democracy: Multilayered Cosmopolitanism 4. Social Struggle for Global Democracy: Rooted and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism Part 3: Against Global Democracy 5. Political Communities 6. Liberal Internationalism Part 4: Global Democracy 7. Cosmo-Federalism 8. Conclusions