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CivWorld at Dēmos Working Group on Global Governance
Co-Conveners: Professor Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) & Dr. Benjamin R. Barber (Dēmos)
CivWorld at Dēmos is pleased to announce the reconvening in spring 2012 of a Working Group on Global Governance that will meet monthly at Dēmos in New York. The Working Group will offer a monthly presentation based on a pre-circulated paper followed by a critical response from another member of the group. Other plans are under way for a conference on global cities in New York.
The Group will bring together a modest group of scholars and practitioners whose work focuses critically on topics connected with the challenges of forging global governance in an age of interdependence where power remains in the hands of nation states and free market corporations, and where traditional international organizations remain rooted in associations of sovereign states. Skeptics will be represented.
The working group begins with the premise that there is a deep asymmetry between the challenges of a 21st century world defined by interdependence and cross-border crisis (ecology, crime, markets, health, drugs, terrorism, technology) and the 19th century world of independent nation-states defined by sovereignty and territorial frontiers. Democracy too is tethered to nation-states and its origins in the social contract and popular sovereignty. This suggests that unless we can find ways to globalize democracy or democratize globalization, we will neither be able to sustain democracy into a global age, nor respond to the challenges of interdependence. Yet with no clear path to global governance or democratic globalization, and there are many reasons for skepticism.
The global governance working group will approach these dilemmas by focusing on the work its members are pursuing on networked cities, immigration and migration (of labor and capital), global rights and global justice, the international courts system, transnational civil society and citizenship, virtual democracy, international institutions, confederalism, and other leading edge topics.
See past seminar papers and videos as well as information on new sessions at the Global Governance Seminars page.
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