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MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Democracy Across Borders: Dêmos to Dêmoiby James Bohman
Bohman notes the extensive interdependence that characterizes the new circumstances of global politics, and argues that states have reacted either by strengthening state boundaries and ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas by Courtney Jung
Jung offers a normatively informed and empirically grounded critique of approaches that justify minority rights on the basis of the need to protect culture.
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity by Will Kymlicka
Kymlicka extends his well known and widely respected defense of a liberal conception of multiculturalism to all states of the world, and asks causal questions ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
"Torture Lite": A Response
A morally significant distinction between full torture and torture lite, says Sussman, would attend to the role that fear and hope play in the experience. ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The Myth of "Torture Lite"
Although the term "torture lite" is frequently used to distinguish between physically mutilating torture and certain interrogation methods that are supposedly less severe, the distinction ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
The populism that is sweeping Latin America seeks, like democracy, to enact the sovereign rule of the people. Nevertheless, democrats and populists diverge over how ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal Online Exclusive
For a Federation of Democracies (Response to Stephen Schlesinger)
Davenport argues for a federation of democracies to replace the United Nations Security Council. This new level of government, he says, is necessary to achieve ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Democracies, Human Rights, and Collective Action
A caucus of democracies and liberal states within the UN could aim to crosscut the UN's deeply entrenched hegemonic voting patterns and support and celebrate ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The Dangers of Democratic Delusions
A "League of Democracies," according to Mahbubani, will divide the world at the very time that a new global consensus needs to be created to ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Why a League of Democracies Will Not Work [Full Text]
The proposal for a league of democracies is fraught with a number of fundamental flaws. In fact, much of what these democracy strategists are seeking ...