Decentring the West

Decentring the West aims to demonstrate the urgent need to revisit the foundations of the global democratic consensus. By examining the views of democracy that exist in the countries on the semi-periphery of the world system such as Russia Turkey Bolivia Venezuela Brazil and China as well as within the core (Estonia Denmark and Sweden) the authors emphasize the truly universal significance of democracy also showing the value of approaching this universality in a critical manner as a consequence of the hegemonic position of the West in global politics.