Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction (Giovanni FINIZIO and Ernesto GALLO) -- PART I. UNITED NATIONS REFORM AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS -- A World of Regions? New Regionalism as a Response to Globalisation and the Decline of US Hegemony (Mario TELÒ) -- Erosion of State Sovereignty and Institutions to Govern Globalisation (Lucio LEVI) -- Whither the United Nations? (Samir AMIN) -- World Government or Global Governance? The UN Project in Historical Perspective (Joseph Preston BARATTA) -- Changing the United Nations. The Key Role of Governance and Managerial Reform (Alessandro POLSI) -- PART II. THE QUEST FOR PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS -- Cosmopolitan Democracy. A Restatement (Daniele ARCHIBUGI) -- Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and Democracy (Ernesto GALLO) -- On the First Branch of Global Governance (Andrew L. STRAUSS) -- Beyond the UN. A World Federal Government? (Raffaele MARCHETTI) -- PART III. STRENGTHENING AND DEMOCRATISING THE SECURITY COUNCIL -- The Evolution of Security in a Globalizing World (Fen OSLER HAMPSON) -- Universal Regional Representation as a Basis for Security Council Reform (Joseph E. SCHWARTZBERG) -- Security Council Reform. A Requirement of International Democracy (Hans KÖCHLER) -- Strengthening the Rule of Law as a Means of Reforming the UN Security Council (Paolo BARGIACCHI) -- The Security Council Reform as a "Sustainable Process". The Role of the European Union (Giovanni FINIZIO) -- Index -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors.