Life in today's global village has two ontological and epistemological aspects. One problem of the globalized world related to these two aspects, which will be discussed in this article first is the fact that the civilization of the globalized world has, in some ways, been disconnected from its culture, since civilization moves towards collectivism whereas culture moves towards ind...

1 Author’s Note: I would like publicly to thank the students in my fall 2006 graduate seminar on “Globalization and Democratic Theory” at Indiana University (Bloomington) for a series of lively discussions on Habermas’s writings on globalization. As they will see, they “won” the argument, since many of their astute critical observations and insights inspired my remarks here. Global Governance w...

If global trade were fair, it is argued, then international aid would be unnecessary and inequalities inherent to the economic system would be justifiable. Here, we argue that while global trade is unfair, in part because richer countries set the rules, we believe that additional interventions must go beyond trade regulation and short-term aid to redress inequalities among countries that will p...