Democracy for a Sustainable World

James Bacchus is Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the Chairman – the chief judge – of the highest tribunal of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He is a former Member of the Congress of the United States, from Florida. His previous books include two published by Cambridge University Press, The Willing World (2018) and Trade Links (2022), which were both listed as 'Best Books' by the Financial Times.

'From Athenian experiments with local democracy to current debates about global democracy, Bacchus gives us a hopeful vision for addressing two critical challenges of our time: planetary sustainability and participatory democracy, as well as a compelling argument for why and how these are inextricably linked. A brilliant intellectual history spanning over 2000 years!' John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

• 1. Greek Fires: Hot Stones in the Path; 2. Human Goals: Finding the Path; 3. Human Action: The Path Is Participation; 4. Athenian Origins: Prelude to the Path; 5. Democratia: Cleisthenes and the Athenians Discover the Path; 6. Rowing the Triremes: Participation as Cooperation for Democracy and Sustainable Development; 7. Aristotle's Garden: Participation as Naturization in the Natural World; 8. In the Footsteps of Cleisthenes: Participation as Liberation Through True Self-Rule; 9. The Vision of Pericles: Participation as Deliberation and Sortition; 10. Frogs Around a Pond: Participation as a Global Framework for Human Imagination; 11. Plato's Living Thoughts: Participation as New Institutions of Global Sortition; 12. The Wall in the Stoa: The Tools for Participation Through Sortition; 13. Reimagining Athens: Participation as Political Will.