Direct action: Past and present -- Part I Liberal states, global neoliberalism and issues of power -- Violence, nonviolence and power: Is liberal democracy nonviolent? -- Democratic deficit, civil society and social movements: The role for direct action -- Economic globalization and democratic deficit: The role of global resistance -- Part II Democratic theory and the role of direct action -- Liberal democratic theory, direct action and globalization -- Participatory democracy and direct action: Republicanism, deliberative democracy and critiques -- Socialism, cosmopolitanism and direct democracy -- Democratic arguments for direct action

1. Direct action
2. Political participation