Author: John R. Wallach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Democracy and Goodness
Author: John R. Wallach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Democracy as Human Rights
Author: Michael Goodhart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135431957
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135431957
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization
Author: Akrivopoulou, Christina
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522507248
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The era of technology in which we reside has ushered in a more globalized and connected world. While many benefits are gained from this connectivity, possible disadvantages to issues of human rights are developed as well. Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization is a pivotal resource for the latest research on the effects of a globalized society regarding issues relating to social ethics and civil rights. Highlighting relevant concepts on political autonomy, migration, and asylum, this book is ideally designed for academicians, professionals, practitioners, and upper-level students interested in the ongoing concerns of human rights.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522507248
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The era of technology in which we reside has ushered in a more globalized and connected world. While many benefits are gained from this connectivity, possible disadvantages to issues of human rights are developed as well. Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization is a pivotal resource for the latest research on the effects of a globalized society regarding issues relating to social ethics and civil rights. Highlighting relevant concepts on political autonomy, migration, and asylum, this book is ideally designed for academicians, professionals, practitioners, and upper-level students interested in the ongoing concerns of human rights.
Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder
Author: Silja Voeneky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842094X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842094X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.
Freedom on the Offensive
Author: William Michael Schmidli
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Democracy and Human Rights
Author: Hans Köchler
Publisher: International Progress Organization
ISBN: 9783900704087
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher: International Progress Organization
ISBN: 9783900704087
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
Author: Carol C. Gould
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions.The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions.The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy.
Human Rights and Democracy
Author: Todd Landman
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849664862
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the precariousness of these achievements in the face of democratic setbacks and the undermining of rights commitments by many countries during the so-called 'War on Terror'.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849664862
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour. Todd Landman offers an optimistic, yet cautionary tale of these developments, drawing on the literature, from politics, international relations and international law. He celebrates the global turn from tyranny and violence towards democracy and rights but also warns of the precariousness of these achievements in the face of democratic setbacks and the undermining of rights commitments by many countries during the so-called 'War on Terror'.
Democracy and Human Rights
Author: David Beetham
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745623153
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745623153
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy.
Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights
Author: Rory O'Connell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035074
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Explores how the European Court of Human Rights understands 'democracy' and might support more deliberative, participatory and inclusive practices.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035074
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Explores how the European Court of Human Rights understands 'democracy' and might support more deliberative, participatory and inclusive practices.