While various thinkers have noted the problematic relationship between democracy and globalization, Goodhart (political science, U. of Pittsburgh) argues that there has been persistent misconceptualization of the relationship between the two that is rooted in the links between sovereignty and democracy in modern democratic theory. The limits imposed by long-submerged tensions between democracy's universal premises and its restriction within the conceptual and territorial limits of sovereignty have come to the fore as globalization transforms configurations of rule by dissipating sovereignty. The solution to this dilemma do not lie in previously articulated cosmopolitan and communitarian democratic responses, which make similar mistakes, but in a conceptualization of democracy as human rights in which the core democratic principles of universal equality and freedom are disentangled from sovereignty. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less