Building Global Democracy

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

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

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

Transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become a popular theme in International Relations (IR) research. Such partnerships constitute a hybrid type of governance, in which nonstate actors co-govern along with state actors for the provision o

The "third wave" of global democratization has left untouched several East Asian autocracies that are experiencing rapid economic growth: China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. These three countries have made enormous progress in liberalizing markets and integrat

The topic selected for the conference was "Literature and Democracy," and a citation from Derrida's "Passions: An Oblique Offering" served as point of departure: "No democracy without literature; no literature without democracy" [28]. This issue is a logi

This article argues that contending ideas about autonomy lie behind current discourses of human rights, claims to nation-state and cultural autonomy, and democracy promotion. Globalizing processes are bringing these contested understandings of autonomy, a

This essay begins in the mode of exposition of the problem of the secret as the link between literature and democracy but moves to respond to Derrida's text with a "heretical rewriting," pursuing the notions of heresy and of rhetorical dissidence and the

The topic of the relation between literature and democracy in Derrida's thinking is introduced, focusing especially on the problem of the secret, which has loomed large in Derrida's late discussions of both literature and democracy.

Taking as its point of departure Derrida's essay "Shibboleth: For Paul Celan," this article is concerned with the relation between the poetic discourse of several Celan lyrics and the problematic of circumcision-as religious operation, wound, inscription,

This tribute to Jacques Derrida takes in the sweep of his orchestration of literature with philosophy, as two "counterposed moments" of his interrogation of the working of language and thought. Focusing especially on his reading of Mallarmé, which distill

Though it reflects on the play of Paine's name and links it can establish, this essay is concerned with the role of fiction in the performativity of texts, both literary and nonliterary, and especially texts which, like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, affect

Departing from Derrida's Rogues, this article outlines the political dimensions of Derrida's later work, especially his engagement with Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and the state of exception and his own elaboration of the notions of sovereignt

This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a "democracy to come" from the Kantian

This article explores the implications of Derrida's suggestion in several texts that, while a classic dialectical materialism partakes of logocentrism, other sorts of nondialectical materialism would be possible. The nondialectical materialisms that emerg

This essay explores the treatment of violence in Derrida's ethico-political work, stressing the underlying continuity of Derrida's thinking of politics, from his first reading of Levinas to one of the last notions he developed, autoimmunity. Haddad analyz