2119 – The Year Global Democracy Will Be Realized By Leif Lewin

the work of Rawls and Barry, he proposed a revised Rawlsian ethics for affairs at the global level. He found it meaningful, moreover, to “return to the analogy of international society and domestic society to discuss whether the two realms are sufficiently similar that arguments for distributive justice within the state carry over into international relations.” He furthermore argued, as did Rawls, that considered judgments can be reached on the question of an ethically sustainable world order.²¹

In sum, I defend the classical theory of democracy against the new pragmatism in international politics; indeed, I do so in light of the experiences now actually gained, almost half way in the run-up to 2119, in connection with the creation of international institutions. In addition, I here subject four models of global governance to scrutiny. This is an immense topic—entire libraries of literature have emerged from it—so the scope of my inquiry must naturally be limited, emphasizing that each and every pragmatic method, as well as global model, deserves more exhaustive analyses. Nonetheless, I have elected to enter this field because I feel a growing unease with the doings of my fellow political scientists, who in their eagerness to do something useful today are on the verge of getting lost in a labyrinth of books and articles with short-term suggestions and forgetting why people are exerting themselves in the first place for the sake of a global democracy for tomorrow.