ABSTRACT
Rousseau believed that democracy was impossible to achieve and warned against it: If the chapter consider the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. Recent history marks the crisis of the modern concept of democracy, which is no longer applicable in a globalised world, where the opening up of borders goes beyond the closures within national borders, responding to the post-Westphalian sovereign states' logic on territory. Openly denounced by Zygmunt Bauman in his works and reconfirmed in State of Crisis, the fracture generated between politics, that is the ability to decide what to do and power, that is the ability to carry it out, is responsible for the depletion of the prerogatives of representative democracy the set of rules that modernity had used to ensure the delegation of citizens in the political apparatus of government.
