Ruth Zimmerling’s Globalization and Democracy, fifteen years on

In 2003, Ruth Zimmerling wrote an article titled Globalization and democracy: a framework for discussion, which was an outcome of the second annual meeting of the Tampere Club (Zimmerling 2005). The aim of that article was to offer “a systematic overview over ideas and assumptions about the relationship between globalization and democracy” (Zimmerling 2005: 61). As many other of her works, this was conceived as a contribution to bring some clarity and systematization to a discussion that back then in 2003 was already fashionable and overwhelmingly omnipresent.