Economic globalisation still determines the current constitution of the world. How the ‘global community’ will be structured politically, that is, normatively, institutionally and judicially, is still a highly contested debate. Rather than following a prefabricated blueprint the future political arrangement of globalisation will be the result of debates and altercations in which not necessarily the most powerful actors alone will be successful, but those with the most convincing arguments and concepts. It seems almost certain that any global order that will count as legitimate, has to comply with democratic principles. In the political struggles of the past decades and centuries, democracy has established itself as the last ‘great political narrative’ that has been able to convey meaning and identity across nations and continents.