Resumen de Challenges to Democracy at the National, EU and Global Levels: A Cosmopolitan Way Forward?

Ferenc Miszlivetz, Jody L. Jensen

• Trapped in the logic of the nationstate paradigm, political imagination and analysis remain largely restricted. Even if capable of recognizing problems, without adequate cognitive frames, the capacity to provide solutions or identify alternatives is lost. When trying to identify the deeper roots and interconnectedness of different sorts of global financial, economic and debt crisis, the ecological crisis, the crisis of the EU and the Euro-zone, and most recently the crisis of democracy and legitimacy, the relationship between globalization and democracy needs more careful analysis. The crisis and transformation may open the way for de facto cosmopolitanism, but the path will be heavily conflict ridden.