1. Biography

2. Research

3. Links to Libya

4. Selected
     Books    Chapters in books    Journal articles  

5. References

6. External links

Together with Daniele Archibugi, Held had been prominent in the development of cosmopolitanism, and of cosmopolitan democracy in particular. He was an active scholar on issues of globalisation, global governance and was joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Global Policy.^[4]

Biography

David Held was born in Britain where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. Upon completing his doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he conducted post-doctoral research at Cambridge University. He held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Australia, Canada, Spain and Italy, among other places.

Held co-founded Polity press in 1984, which has become a leading publisher in the social sciences and humanities across the world. He is also the General Editor for Global Policy, an academic journal started in 2008 that focuses on bridging the gap between academics and practitioners on issues of global significance.

In January 2012, he succeeded Professor Maurice Tucker as Master of University College, Durham, alongside his chair in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.^[5]

Having taken ill, Held died in hospital on 2 March 2019.^[6]

Research

Since his first book was published in 1980 (Introduction to Critical Theory), David Held has been pursuing a multilevel inquiry into the nature and changing form of national and international politics. This approach has involved three kinds of work. First, it has involved extensive empirical enquiry into the dynamic character, structural elements and governance failures of contemporary society. The empirical dimensions of his work have included books such as Global Transformations (1999), Globalization/Anti-globalization (2007), Global Inequality (2007) and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most (2013). These books map the changing global context of politics, how the world has become increasingly interconnected, and how failures of leadership and negotiation at the global level are creating a breakdown of multilateralism and global governance.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Second, he has been investigating the changing nature and form of the modern state and the locus of the political good. Held examines the question of whether the nation state alone, as typically assumed by political theory, can be the sole home of democracy, accountability and the rule of law. This has entailed a critical evaluation of the concepts of democracy, sovereignty, governance and cosmopolitanism, among other concepts. Books that have explored these themes include: Democracy in the Global Order (1999), Models of Democracy (2006), Cosmopolitanism: ideals and realities (2010). {{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

The third element of Prof. Held’s current work is to explore how and in what ways one can move beyond the crises and dilemmas of politics and governance in the contemporary world. Books such as Global Covenant (2004), Debating Globalization (2005) and a wide range of academic articles set out the contours of a multiactor, multilevel democratic politics framed by the fundamental principles of democracy, justice and sustainability.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Accordingly, Held’s work explores, on the one hand, the shift in politics from nation states to what he calls a world of ‘overlapping communities of fate' (where the fortunes of countries are increasingly enmeshed) and, on the other hand, how democratic standards and cosmopolitan values can be entrenched in the global order. In pursuing this multilevel approach Prof. Held sees himself working within the classic tradition of political theory which has always been concerned with how to characterize the world in which we live, how to develop and reach normative goals such as liberty, democracy and social justice, and how to move from where we are to where we might like to be. Prof. Held’s response to this challenge is to explore the way globalization has altered the landscape of politics{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}, how cosmopolitanism provides ideals that enable one to rethink politics and the political good, and to pursue political stepping stones that could help embed this agenda. He offers a contribution to a pressing dialogue of our times: how to resolve collective action problems, nationally and globally, through institutions and governance arrangements that enhance democracy, social justice and the participation of all citizens in a democratic public life.

Links to Libya

In March, 2011, Held's name came to be linked with the LSE Libya Links controversy. Held was an advisor of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who received his PhD from LSE in 2008.^[7]

Selected

Books

• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = States and societies | publisher = New York University Press | location = New York | year = 1983 | isbn = 9780814734223 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Models of democracy | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | edition = 3rd | year = 2006 | origyear = 1987 | isbn = 9780804754729 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Political theory and the modern state: essays on state, power, and democracy | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780804717489 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Thompson | first2 = John B. | title = Social theory of modern societies: Anthony Giddens and his critics | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK New York, New York | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780521278553 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780745607696 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Hall | first2 = Stuart | last3 = McGrew | first3 = Anthony | author-link2 = Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) | title = Modernity and its futures | publisher = Polity Press in association with the Open University | location = Cambridge | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780745609669 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Prospects for democracy : North, South, East, West | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780804721936 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Archibugi | first2 = Daniele | author-link2 = Daniele Archibugi | title = Democracy and the global order: from the modern state to cosmopolitan governance | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780804726870 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Cosmopolitanism: an agenda for a new world order | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780745613819 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Archibugi | first2 = Daniele | last3 = Koehler | first3 = Martin | author-link2 = Daniele Archibugi | title = Re-imagining political community: studies in cosmopolitan democracy | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780804735353 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Goldblatt | first2 = David | last3 = McGrew | first3 = Anthony | last4 = Perraton | first4 = Jonathan | title = Global transformations: politics, economics and culture | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780745614991 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = A globalizing world?: Culture, economics, politics | publisher = Routledge in association with the Open University | location = London New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780415222945 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = McGrew | first2 = Anthony | title = Globalization/anti-globalization: beyond the great divide | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | origyear = 2002 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780745639116 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Taming globalization: frontiers of governance | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780745630779 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Global covenant: the Social Democratic alternative to the Washington consensus | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780745633527 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Global governance and public accountability | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | location = Oxford, UK | year = 2005 | isbn = 9781405126786 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Kaya | first2 = Ayse | title = Global inequality: patterns and explanations | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780745638867 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = McGrew | first2 = Anthony | title = Globalization theory: approaches and controversies | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780745632100 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Mepham | first2 = David | title = Progressive foreign policy: new directions for the UK | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780745641140 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Moore | first2 = Henrietta L. | author-link2 = Henrietta Moore | title = Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation | publisher = One World Publications | location = Oxford | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781851685509 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Cosmopolitanism: ideals and realities | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780745648354 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | last2 = Coates-Ulrichsen | first2 = Kristian | title = The end of the American Century: from 9/11 to the Arab Spring | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745663722 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | last2 = Roger | first2 = Charles | last3 = Nag | first3 = Eva-Maria | title = Climate governance in the developing world | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745662770 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | last2 = Hale | first2 = Tom | last3 = Young | first3 = Kevin | title = Gridlock: why global cooperation is failing when we need it most | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745662398 }}
• {{cite book | last = Held | first = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Global policy: power, governance and accountability | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2014 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264437735 | isbn = }} (forthcoming)

Chapters in books

• {{Citation | last = Held | first = David | contribution = Principles of the cosmopolitan order | editor-last1 = Brighouse | editor-first1 = Harry | editor-last2 = Brock | editor-first2 = Gillian | editor-link1 = Harry Brighouse | title = The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism | pages = 10–27 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780521846608 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}

Journal articles

• Archibugi, Daniele; Held, David (Winter 2011). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs/article/cosmopolitan-democracy-paths-and-agents/9F969D03032228FCFDD2C749D160180D "Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents"]. Ethics & International Affairs. 25 (4): 433-461. doi.org/10.1017/S0892679411000360.
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Fane-Hervey | first2 = Angus | title = Democracy, climate change and global governance | journal = Policy Network | date = November 2009 | format = paper | url = http://www.policy-network.net/publications_detail.aspx?ID=3406 | ref = harv }} Pdf.
• {{Cite journal | last = Held | first = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Introduction | journal = Government and Opposition | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 125–131 | doi = 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00117.x | date = Spring 2004 | ref = harv }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Held | first = David | title = Democratic accountability and political effectiveness from a cosmopolitan perspective | journal = Government and Opposition | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 364–391 | doi = 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00127.x | date = Spring 2004 | ref = harv }}

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