Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 - Kant's Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion -- Kant's Republicanism and the 'Moral Personality' of States -- The Sovereign Equality of States, Peaceful Coexistence and the International Constitution -- Kant's Cosmopolitanism -- Cicero's Republicanism and Stoic Cosmopolitanism: Kant in Comparison -- John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas: Alternative Ways of Understanding Kant's Cosmopolitanism -- Notes -- 2 - The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect -- The Many Voices of the Human Rights Discourse -- Human Rights as the New Standard of Civilisation -- Human Rights and Democracy: Liberal Perspectives -- Notes -- 3 - The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance -- The Entitlement to Democratic Governance in International Law and International Politics -- The Ideology of Democracy Promotion -- Excursus: Prerequisites and Causes of Democratisation -- Democratisation and 'modern dynamic pluralist society' -- Democratisation, class and capitalist development -- Democratisation and elite transactions -- Notes -- 4 - Sovereignty and Democracy -- Conceptual Distinctions -- The Politics of the Sovereignty Discourse -- 'Domestic Sovereignty' as 'Popular Sovereignty' -- The sovereignty of the state -- The sovereignty of the people -- Notes -- 5 - Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation -- From 'Demos' to 'Demoi': Multiculturalism and Democracy -- Globalisation and Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.