Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter I - Introduction: Framing the Global Democratic Dynamic -- Overview -- Untitled -- The "White Man's Burden"? -- Promoting Western Democracy -- A family portrait of democracy -- Instrumental and intrinsic value of democracy -- On absolute and relative universality of the concept of democracy -- On idealism, hypocrisy and pragmatism in promoting democracy -- Globalization and spread of Democracy -- Competitive Western Democracy -- Western model of 'Liberal Democracy' as The 'New World Order'? -- Chapter II - Western Liberal Democracy as Cognitive Imperialism: A Theoretical Exploration -- Overview -- Introduction -- Towards a Definition of Cognitive Imperialism -- Indigenous Democratic Knowledge and Eurocentrism -- Definitions: Liberalism, the West and Hegemony -- International Institutions -- International Trade/ Economic Interdependence -- Democracy or Recolonization? -- Denial of Capitalist Democratic Hegemony and Contesting Concepts of Class -- Expunging Class Altogether -- Admitting Some Concepts of Class While Excluding those of Marx -- Marx's Concept as Counterhegemonic -- The Repression of Marx's Concept of Class (Just like the Quakers in the 17th, 18th, 19th century) -- Seeds of Competitive Western Democracy -- Social Injustice and Unsustainability of Western Democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter III - Globalization and Democratization as Rewesternization -- Overview -- Introduction -- Background to Exporting Western Democracy -- Cold War Origins of Western Crusade for Democratization -- Theorizing Globalization and Democratization as Rewesternization -- Globalization and Legal Rewesernization of the South -- Western Bastardization of Democratization -- Perils of Imposing Western Democracy -- Hard Lessons of Democratic Imperialism.

Chapter IV - Toward Liberation from Western Democracy's Cognitive Imperialism -- Overview -- Introduction -- The Bandung Liberation Idea: Decoloniality/Delinking -- Preamble of Liberation Epistemology -- Rise of Liberation Epistemology: Decoloniality -- Liberating Knowledge -- Postcoloniality, Decoloniality and Delinking -- Alternatives to Western Democracy -- A Bahá'í Alternative to Western Political Competition -- Beyond Western Hegemony of Political Competition -- Rationale for the Decolonial/Delinking Theory -- Summary and Conclusion -- The New World Democratic Order Questioned -- World Order from USA point of view -- The World Order from the Non-USA Point of View -- Bibliography -- Back cover.