세계화시대의 보편적 민주주의 = Universal Democracy in the Global Age

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The world is transforming into a transnational society. The wide spread of democratic ideal has also accompanied the idea of human dignity and respect along with humanitarianism. Today democracy is the main legitimating principle of government.
Almost every political leaders, even dictators proclaim their belief in democracy and would not opposite to the democracy's desirability.
This, however, is the age of globalization as well as democracy. Globalization challenges to the theory of democracy in a global society. Liberal rights are increasingly being claimed and enforced by authorities outside national jurisdictions - as in the cases of jurisdictional disputes within a regional authority like the European Union. The traditional tension between liberal rights and democratic authority takes on a more challenging form in the global society. And globalization means that important issues increasingly elude the control of nation-states.
In an increasingly interdependent world, we all also have an interest in spreading the benefits of democracy as widely as possible. This political aim is no less important than the economic one. The challenges that globalization poses for liberal democracy are not entirely new, but they call for some new thinking about both the theory and practice of democracy. In our eagemess to manage eficiently the global economy, we should not forget that we need to govern democratically the global society that sustains it.
Can democracy conducted today follow this migration of issues, problems, strategies, and solutions into a transnational, global society? There is little sign that democracy has followed this path. Collective choice in the contemporary international system is seen far from democratic one. It is well known that foreign policy is the main area where "reasons of state" or "national interest" override democratic decision making. The world is sometimes the dangerous place, realist theorists of international relations describe, with self-help the only prudent strategy in an anarchy where violence is ever-present possibility. So state democracy cannot be allowed to impede the overarching survival imperatives. More insidiously, the international system bears witness to the consolidation of regimes for trade and finance that entrench the authority fo the market and of those actors and organizations(such as IMF and WTO) designated as economic police officers.
There is again little evidence of democracy here.
These impediments to democracy notwithstanding, the contemporary international polity is also a highly decentralized system in which substantial amounts of cooperation, conflicts resolution and joint problem solving can occur. It is in this light that tht more positive prospects for democracy can be pursued. If our social existence itself presupposes the necessary or rational dialogue or discussions concerning values among diferent people, I believe that theories, or fragments of theories, can influence the way that leaders and citizens think and act, making progress in practices of democracy.
In this paper, it is suggested that the perspective of "universal democracy" - an ideal and/or a theory which will guarantee equal rights and peaceful coexistence among nations, big or small, strong or weak, as well as the freedom, equality, and prosperity of all humanity, will be better prepared to cope with the challenges in global society. In turn the universal democracy would pave the road to a "Global Common Society," in which peoples all over the world think and behave as world citizens in a single global family from the perspective of a world community.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론 = 263
• II. 세계화의 도전 = 265
• III. 세계화에 대한 대응 = 268
• IV. 세계화시대의 민주주의: 보편적 민주주의 = 271
• V. 결론 = 274
• 참고문헌 = 275
• 영문요약 = 278