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Globalisation and the Challenge of Democracy in Arab North Africa pdf - 0 views

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    Democratization processes have emerged recently as an essential component of globalization and thus, have been paramount in its discourse, and as a political prerequisite for integrating developing countries in the global market. The emphasis, however, ha
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Democracy of the Algorithm :: Society of the Query - 0 views

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    What if the western faith in technology and information, in the belief that the information returned are all the voices, that universal access to al information will change complicated social issues, have made us more blind to the constructedness of our o
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Growth in women's political representation :: European Journal of Political Research - 0 views

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    The expansion of women's formal political representation ranks among the most significant trends in international politics of the last 100 years. Though women made steady political progress, substantial country-level variation exists in patterns of growth
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On the circularity of democratic justice -- Thompson 35 (9): 1079 -- Philosophy & Socia... - 0 views

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    In this article, I argue that justice and democracy stand in a circular relationship: just outcomes emerge from democratic deliberations, but only if such deliberations meet the standards of justice. I develop my argument by engaging in a critical dialogu
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What is wrong with agonistic pluralism?: Reflections on conflict in democratic theory -... - 0 views

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    During the last couple of decades, concurrently with an increased awareness of the complexity of ethical conflicts, political theorists have directed attention to how constitutional democracy should cope with a fact of incommensurable doctrines. Poststruc
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FRIDE - La UE y el desarrollo de los medios de comunicación en Asia Central - 0 views

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    A pesar del compromiso de la UE con Asia Central fruto de la adopción de la Estrategia de la Unión Europea en junio 2007, la situación de los medios de comunicación sigue deteriorándose en los cinco países de la región. El diálogo sobre derechos humanos i
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FRIDE - The EU' s approach to the development of mass media in Central Asia - 0 views

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    In spite of positive developments in terms of human rights, the rule of law and democratisation in Central Asia following the adoption of the European Union (EU) Strategy in June 2007, the state of the mass media continues to deteriorate in all five count
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Journal of Democracy - How Regions Differ - 0 views

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    Does democracy lead to more inclusive and equitable social contracts? Our answer is a qualified "yes." Democratization in Latin America and Eastern Europe increased attention to social policy despite wrenching economic crises. Yet welfare legacies of the
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Journal of Democracy - Iran in Ferment - 0 views

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    Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election has given rise to an outpouring of public protest and intraelite conflict unprecedented in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic. All this has occurred despite the fact that the unelected Council of
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Overcoming Constraints of State Sovereignty: global health governance in Asia - Third W... - 0 views

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    In an increasingly globalised world effective international communicable diseases control requires states to embrace basic norms informing global health governance. However, recent international public health crises have shown that states continue to use
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International Crisis Group - Understanding Transitional Justice in Fragile States - 0 views

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    Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, to the Overseas Development Institute, "Peace Versus Justice? Understanding Transitional Justice in Fragile States", 9 October 2009
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Introduction: Kenya - A democracy in retreat? - Journal of Contemporary African Studies - 0 views

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    The post-election crisis of January 2008 brought Kenya close to collapse and the status of a failed state. Following the abrupt proclamation of Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president, as victor in a highly contentious presidential election, peace was disrup
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Decentring Global Power: The Merits of a Foucauldian Approach to International Relation... - 0 views

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    In recent times, the value of a critical approach to the study of International Relations (IR) that makes use of the concepts and methods of Michel Foucault has (again) been put on trial. I will argue in this article that both Foucauldians and their criti
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Taking Foucault beyond Foucault: Inter-state Governmentality in Early Modern Europe - G... - 0 views

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    The analysis of governmentality has had a profound impact on the study of liberal, domestic societies over the last two decades, and the conceptual framework has been applied successfully to current global affairs. In this article one possible way of expa
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Hobbes, War, Movement - Global Society - 0 views

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    While informed by Foucault's understanding of power in terms of war and circulation, this article challenges Foucault's static reading of Hobbes. Contextualising Hobbes's political thought within the scientific ideas that he was inspired by, this article
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Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations - Global S... - 0 views

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    As more work on governmentality appears in International Relations (IR), it is time to take stock and deal with a few questions. In social theory, the governmentality approach has mainly addressed "advanced liberal" societies and can be defined as having
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Governmentality, Capitalism, and Subjectivity - Global Society - 0 views

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    This article takes as its starting point the important contribution that governmentality studies make to our understanding of the social and political conditions that shape contemporary world politics. However, it suggests that the critical potential of a
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Neoliberal Political Economy and the Subjectivity of Crisis: Why Governmentality is Not... - 0 views

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    This paper revisits Foucault's understanding of the importance of subjectivity for politics, focusing in particular on his claims concerning the sorts of demands placed on the subject by contemporary capitalism. Moves to extend the application of Foucault
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Virtual Worlds and Their Discontents: Precarious Sovereignty, Governmentality... - 0 views

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    In the following article, author argues that virtual worlds are characterized by a particular mode of governmentality. Rather than seeing virtual worlds as analogous to societies in the real world, he suggests regarding them as ''social factories'' in whi
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ENVIRONMENT: Novel Tribunal Gives Voice to Climate Change Victims - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    The 'Asian People's Climate Tribunal' was held in a banquet hall of a hotel a short distance away from where government negotiators from the developing and developed world are meeting at the two-week-long United Nations climate change talks that commenced
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