Sovereignty Democracy And Global Civil Society

Author : Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483843
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society written by Elisabeth Jay Friedman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society explores the growing power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by analyzing a microcosm of contemporary global state-society relations at UN World Conferences. The intense interactions between states and NGOs at conferences on the environment, human rights, women's issues, and other topics confirm the emergence of a new transnational democratic sphere of activity. Employing both regional and global case studies, the book charts noticeable growth in the ability of NGOs to build networks among themselves and effect change within UN processes. Using a multidimensional understanding of state sovereignty, the authors find that states use sovereignty to shelter not only material interests but also cultural identity in the face of external pressure. This book is unique in its analysis of NGO activities at the international level as well as the complexity of nation-states' responses to their new companions in global governance.

Author : Albert J. Paolini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349143421
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Sovereignty and Global Governance? written by Albert J. Paolini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature and problems of global governance as we enter the next millennium. It focuses on the United Nations, the most ambitious experiment to date in multilateral management of world society. Leading scholars, policy-makers, and representatives of non-governmental organizations examine the economic, security, and civil political dimensions of governance, exploring the impact of changing global conditions on national, regional, and international institutions and processes of governance. They use the experience of the United Nations system to illuminate the nature and viability of sovereign and non-sovereign forms of governance in an era of rapid political, economic, cultural, strategic, and ecological change.

Author : Helen M. Stacy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804771022
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights for the 21st Century written by Helen M. Stacy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday tragedies, such as female genital mutilation, human rights abuses continue at an alarming rate. As the world population increases and global trade brings new wealth as well as new problems, international law can and should respond better to those who live in fear of violence, neglect, or harm. Modern critiques global human rights fall into three categories: sovereignty, culture, and civil society. These are not new problems, but have long been debated as part of the legal philosophical tradition. Taking lessons from tradition and recasting them in contemporary light, Helen Stacy proposes new approaches to fill the gaps in current approaches: relational sovereignty, reciprocal adjudication, and regional human rights. She forcefully argues that law and courts must play a vital role in forging a better human rights vision in the future.

Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134256868
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Civil Society written by Gideon Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Author : Adam Lupel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135969310
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Popular Sovereignty written by Adam Lupel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty, seeking to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy.

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765854
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Sovereignty written by Jean L. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way in which globalisation has affected our thinking about sovereignty, human rights, law and legitimacy.

Author : Michael Goodhart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135431957
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy as Human Rights written by Michael Goodhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent. Michael Goodhart argues that both views fail to recognize the complex link between modern democracy and the sovereign state and the degree to which globalization challenges the modern conceptualization of democracy. Original and historically informed, Democracy as Human Rights provides a carefully argued theory of democracy in which traditional representative government is supported by global institutions designed to guarantee fundamental human rights.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : London ; New York : Verso
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Civil Society written by John Keane and published by London ; New York : Verso. This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terrell Carver
Publisher : Democratization and Autocratiz
ISBN 13 : 9780415548571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globality, Democracy and Civil Society written by Terrell Carver and published by Democratization and Autocratiz. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the past, present and future of democratic values and practice, focussing on conceptions of democracy that reconcile radical plurality with democratic practices, presenting examples and perspectives framed by 'globality', rather than an East/West binary.

Author : D. Chandler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005845
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Global Civil Society written by D. Chandler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by the advocates of global civil society, analyzing the limits of the concept as a way of describing actual policy processes and the political dynamics behind the search for an international source of collective ethical values and social change.