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Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: A Deweyan Approach to Democracy beyond the Nation-State -- B... - 0 views

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    Contemporary normative debates about democracy beyond nation-states have largely centred on the claims of two broad camps: the `liberal cosmopolitans' and the `deliberative democrats'. This article offers an alternative perspective developed from the work
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The Symbiosis of Democracy and Tragedy: Lost Lessons from Ancient Greece -- Chou and Bl... - 0 views

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    Democracy and tragedy were intrinsically linked during the time of the Athenian city-state. But though vital at the time, this symbiosis is largely forgotten today. We address this puzzling silence. What was it about democracy that encouraged, even needed
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Beyond the End of History: The Need for a `Radical Historicisation' of Democracy in Int... - 0 views

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    To properly comprehend democracy's present and future role in politics, particularly in regards to processes of democratisation and democracy promotion, we must cultivate a more nuanced reading of democracy's past. Needed is `a radical historicisation of
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Power to the People: Nationally Embedded Development and Mass Armies in the Making of D... - 0 views

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    Much current thinking about democracy and how it can be promoted is based on myths about how democracy was achieved in the West. For example, the association of economic openness with democratisation - the focus of a vast literature and the rationale for
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Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights... - 0 views

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    This article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts new engagements with democracy, mobility has been
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Millennium - Journal of International Studies -- Democracy in International Society: Pr... - 0 views

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    I wish to address the sources of international society's reticence, and the tensions to which its promotion of democracy currently gives rise. It is now commonplace for national governments routinely to affirm their intent to 'continue to promote and supp
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Millennium - Journal of International Studies -- Democracy in a Multipolar World - 0 views

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    I have decided that the best way to address the theme of this conference, 'Interrogating Democracy in International Relations', is to examine the implications of my agonistic approach for envisaging what democracy could mean in a multipolar world.
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Restructuring Global Governance: Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the Global Order Mille... - 0 views

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    This article examines why cosmopolitanism remains a compelling political philosophy and approach to global challenges.
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Editorial Special issue: Interrogating Democracy in International Relations Millennium ... - 0 views

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    Apart from asking vital questions about the nature of democratic politics, the contributions to this special issue highlight the contingency and fragility of democratic politics - many things have to go right for the emergence of democracy to last. This i
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    The transition to democracy is a slow and fragile process. The development of practical and sound public policies that are applicable, acceptable, and inclusive are vital for the establishment of democratic systems. We believe that such policies should be
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Jacob Zuma, the social body and the unruly power of song -- Gunner 108 (430): 27 -- Afr... - 0 views

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    This article tracks the life of the song 'Umshini Wami' (My Machine Gun) adopted by Jacob Zuma, the President of the African National Congress, since early 2005. It explores the wider implications of political song in the public sphere in South Africa an
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World Politics - The Balance of Power in the Balance - 0 views

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    This article reviews four recent books on balancing and the balance of power. Both in isolation and when taken together, they provide strong analytical and empirical warrants against the proposition that balance of power equilibria represent the "normal c
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Project MUSE - Journal of Democracy - Hugo Chávez's "Petro-socialism" - 0 views

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    On 15 February 2009, Venezuelan voters approved a referendum to eliminate term limits for all elected offices. The 55 percent majority that voted for this measure cleared the path for President Hugo Ch�vez to run again in 2012. In order to make sense of t
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Journal of Democracy - The Rules of Survival - 0 views

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    In an attempt to explain the Russian Revolution to Lady Ottoline Morrell, British philosopher Bertrand Russell once remarked that Bolshevik despotism, appalling though it was, seemed the right sort of government for Russia. "If you ask yourself how Fyodor
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Journal of Democracy - The Siloviki in Charge - 0 views

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    Who are the holders of political power in Russia today, and what is the relationship between them and the rest of Russia's people? The answer to the first question boils down to the siloviki (sometimes called "securocrats" by political scientists). These
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Journal of Democracy - The Merger of Power and Property - 0 views

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    The regime in Russia today is authoritarian. The executive is the only branch with real power, no fair competition for votes is permitted, and the institutional channels for effective political opposition are completely blocked. The authoritarianism is of
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Journal of Democracy - The Return of Personalized Power - 0 views

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    Russia today serves as evidence of Francis Fukuyama's assertion that there are "few alternative institutional arrangements that elicit any enthusiasm" aside from liberal democracy -- or at least the appearance of it.1 The Russian elite has followed in the
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Journal of Democracy - Is There a Key? - 0 views

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    Western experts, analysts, and policy makers always seem to be looking for the "key" that will explain Russian political behavior and provide insights into future Russian actions in the international arena. Certainly, the exercise of trying to discern wha
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Journal of Democracy - The Dying Mutant - 0 views

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    The corporatist kleptocracy that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has erected is profoundly misunderstood in the West. The Putin regime's Western defenders and apologists like to trot out a pet argument that migrates from one publication to another. It goes
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Journal of Democracy - Forms Without Substance - 0 views

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    Twenty years ago, there was a more thoroughgoing political pluralism in Russia than there is today. Contested elections took place for a new legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Along with its inner body, a radically reformed Suprem
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