<P>If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must begoverned by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. Butbefore we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking andextension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages andadvances that work.The book's first part, "Weak Universalism," contains essays by Amartya Sen andLeif Wenar that offer constructive developments of John Rawls's statement of the principles aliberal polity might reasonably propose to govern its relations with other peoples. The second part,"Strong Universalism and Transnational Commitments," contains essays by Jürgen Habermas, DavidLuban, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Pogge examining the normative sources and possible types ofcross-border commitments. In the third part, "Transnational Politics and National Identities,"Habermas discusses the possibility of a democratic political order developing within theinstitutional framework of the European Union; Thomas McCarthy draws on Kant to show howcosmopolitanism might be reconciled with the legacy of nationalism; and Craig Calhoun tries toretrieve a positive aspect of the tradition of nationalism, namely that it provides largepopulations with a powerful way of imagining political community across space and time.</P>