Building Global Democracy

China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is active in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. It is no longer appropriate to talk of inte

The paper's aim is to tackle some significant challenges faced by democratic theory in plurinational societies. Claims to recognition challenge the assumption of a 'people speaking in one voice' (namely, the assumption of the constituency as a homogeneous

In conclusion, there is every reason to think that a democratic federation that began by representing 40 percent of the world's population in fifty nations would, within a couple decades, come to represent two-thirds of humanity in a hundred nations, whil

In this special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, 'Risk, Regulation and New Modes of Regional Governance in the Asia-Pacific', it has been argued that new modes of regional governance in the Asia-Pacific region have become embedded

In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser's theoretical framework, and explore

La charge de la preuve s'étant ainsi inversée, les tenants de la souveraineté populaire sont immédiatement en position de défense, et le champ politique sur lequel pourraient s'exprimer les luttes sociales est fortement attaqué. L'individu voit nier à la

The changes that followed the Peace Agreements in Central America, particularly since the 90s when the "democratization process" began, went further than merely implementing regular elections. They signified the adoption of a whole package of fiscal, macr

Transformations under way in Indian cities have begun to alter the opportunities for democratic participation among the urban poor. Highlighting efforts to promote globally oriented urban developments in Mumbai, this article examines the state's engagemen

The sense that democracy is in retreat worldwide has become widespread. But the emergence of citizen-centred, governance-focused and development-oriented approaches suggests that a more complex and hopeful shift is also taking place, say Nicholas Benequis

A recurring theme in the democracy promotion literature over the past ten years has been the need for external actors engaged in democracy promotion to take the local context of the relevant country into account when designing and implementing their effor

In the context of spiralling decay that, in recent decades, has engulfed all spheres of the human condition, this article seeks to endorse Tomaselli's essentially ethical position, advancing that the foremost contextual launching pad for cultural studies

This essay argues that the territorial fluidity of the process of surplus production has been accompanied by a new form of imperialism, resting on a structural separation of the processes of surplus appropriation and distribution from the processes of sur

The relationship between literature and the state has been controversial since the time of Plato. Until recently, however, the few scholars to write on this subject considered it an underdeveloped topic in literary studies. This survey article argues that

This essay discusses the dialectical relationship between the concepts of "democracy" and "citizenship," by relating to current debates which combine a transformation of the philosophical tradition and an evaluation of situations where the legal distincti

As a quintessential long-term policy problem, climate change poses two major challenges. The first is to develop, under considerable uncertainty, a plan for allocating resources over time to achieve an effective policy response. The second is to implement

URL: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MWAI-7U78JZ?OpenDocument This is the fifth volume in the series of Arab Human Development Reports sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and independently authored by intellectuals a

Key aspects that the U.N. mission wants to clarify is how long the Hondurans plan to stay in Nicaragua, and how supplies of food, drinking water, basic services and health care can be provided, in accordance with the capacities of the central government a

This Working Paper by Stefan Meyer summarises the current debate on governance assessments. It describes the emergence of the 'governance' concept in international development cooperation and identifies the implications of the aid effectiveness principles

KIGALI , Jul 29 (IPS) - Fifty-six percent of Rwanda's parliamentarians are women, a manifestation of the active role women have taken in rebuilding the country since the 1994 genocide.

Norman Abjorensen, co-author of Australia: The State of Democracy, runs a tape-measure over the nation's democratic institutions and practices