In their rigorous and historically grounded account, Rosow and George demonstrate what it means to do political theory. From classical Athens to the Occupy movements, their text ranges across time and space to remind us that democracy is not liberalism and that politics is not easy. An outstanding introduction to one of the most important concepts in modern political life. -- Anthony F. Lang Jr., University of St. Andrews This challenging and stimulating work forcefully critiques the assumptions of post-Cold War democratic political theory and neoliberal economic ideology. Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George present imaginative new ways of rethinking democracy and its relationship to globalization through historical and current examples. By highlighting how promoting democracy and neoliberal economic policies follows limited and limiting agendas, they articulate a more subtle and socially relevant picture of what potential democratic possibilities might mean in the globalized twenty-first century. -- Daniel Warner, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.