ABSTRACT
The question ‘Is international democracy possible?’ might be interpreted in two ways. Is democracy possible in organizations and processes above the level of the nation-state or country?1 Or alternatively, as globalization expands, will the power and autonomy of the nation-state or country greatly decline, much as the power and autonomy of independent city-states declined as they were reduced to subordinate units of the larger nation-state or country? Here, I am going to consider only the first question.2 After posing a similar question several years ago, I responded with scepticism (Dahl 1999).3
