Table of Contents

1. People’s Power and the Globalisation of Democracy, Kevin Gray and Barry Gills.

2. People’s Power Redux, Joel Rocamora.

3. South African People's Power since the mid-1980s: Two steps forward, one back, Patrick Bond.

4. Dilemmas of New Democracy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization: The Case of South Korea, Kwang-Yeong Shin.

5. People’s power and the struggle for social democracy in Latin America, Henry Veltmeyer.

6. How did democracy lose its Green? Taiwan’s democratization and its social content, Hsin-Hsing Chen.7. Reconstructing ‘popular power’: The ALBA-PTA and the regionalisation of "revolutionary democracy, Thomas Muhr.8. Competing Ideologies of Representation in Southeast Asia, Garry Rodan.9. Beyond free markets and liberal democracy: the quest for an ‘emanicipatory’ Pan-African democratic project, Fantu Cheru.10. Populism, regressive nationalism, and the limits to neoliberalism? Contradiction and paradox in Poland’s post-communist transformation, Stuart Shields.11. Iraq: Formal Democratisation and Popular Challenge, Kamil Mahdi.

About the Author

Barry K Gills is Professor of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. He is sole or joint editor of a number of edited volumes including The Global Politics of Globalization: ‘Empire’ vs. ‘Cosmopolis’; Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice; and Globalization and Global History. He is also editor of Routledge journal Globalizations.


Kevin Gray is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2008) and a number of scholarly articles on the political economy of East Asia.