scholarly journals Introduction: World state futures

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Albert ◽  
Gorm Harste ◽  
Heikki Patomäki ◽  
Knud Erik Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World State ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
Present Context ◽  
State Form

In some contrast to the traditional and ongoing normative discussions about the desirability of a world state, new and more explicitly geo-historical questions about world political integration are being posed, especially (i) whether elements of world statehood are in existence already, (ii) whether a world state is in some sense inevitable, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state would be sustainable? For instance, the existing and emerging structures of global governance, of a global public sphere and global constitutionalism can be argued to converge to form at least nascent forms of world statehood. Building on and complementing such diagnoses of existing forms of world statehood, the question arises about whether there are possible and likely, or even inevitable, futures in which the emergence of more ‘thick’ forms of a world state, understood as a more tightly and substantially integrated expression of political community, could evolve. This possibility raises further questions about the legitimacy, viability and sustainability of such a state form. After a brief overview of these issues, the Introduction provides a preview of the following contributions of this special issue as well as the distinction between the ‘global’ and the ‘world’ as one possible future research trajectory in the present context.

Comprehending global governance: International regime complexity vs. global constitutionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
KAREN J. ALTER
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Order ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Constitutionalism

AbstractThe After Fragmentation special issue unites political science conversations about regime complexity with legal/normative conversations about global constitutionalism through a focus on the generation and resolution of interface conflicts, defined as moments when overlapping elements or rule incompatibilities generate actual conflicts. Yet scholars choosing among these two perspectives actually have different objectives. After reviewing the two literatures, I argue that this special issue is closer to the global constitutionalism perspective, which generally seeks legitimated order. By contrast, the regime complexity literature asks how does the fact that global governance is spread across multiple institutions in itself shape cooperation politics. Investigating what it means to get ‘beyond fragmentation’, I suggest that the potential or actuality of rule conflicts is not necessarily a problem because conflicts are a normal and even salutary aspect of politics. If conflict is not the concern, then what should we be worrying about? Both perspectives, I argue, are amoral because they normalise and help justify an international order where responsibility is spread across institutions, promoting order while failing to address fundamental problems affecting people and the world. In this respect, resolving rule conflicts does not get us beyond fragmentation.

scholarly journals Law–Space Nexus, Global Governance, and Global Administrative Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Ming-Sung Kuo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Argument Proceeds

This chapter sheds light on the multinational research project approach to global governance, which is known as global administrative law (GAL), with a focus on the unease GAL has expressed with its own constitutional implications. The argument proceeds as follows. First, it is explained why GAL’s approach to global governance echoes the history of responding to the emergence of modern administrative agencies with administrative law in the United States. It is also noted that GAL reframes the world of national legal orders as a ‘global administrative space’. Second, it is shown that GAL turns to the idea of ‘publicness’ to address the dual challenge of legality and legitimacy and the question of legal pluralism arising from the heterogeneity of global governance. Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion of the unsettled relationship between GAL and global constitutionalism.

The Politics of Global Constitutionalism

ICL Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Current State ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
Open Discussion ◽  
State Form

AbstractThe article argues that no understanding of global constitutionalism will be complete without a thorough discussion of its political dimension. The current state of scholarship on global constitutionalism is dominated by discussions of legal elements. However, any theory of global constitutionalism has an underlying vision of the political. Without discussing this underlying vision of the political global constitutionalism will remain incomplete. In particular the article demonstrates that the contemporary debates on global constitutionalism are plagued by a contradiction between its aims and its underlying vision of the political. Thus, global constitutionalism postulates individuals as central units of its concern. However, by maintaining states as central actors although in a changed form and with fewer powers global constitutionalism unwittingly subscribes to a vision of the political anchored in the state form and based on the exclusion/inclusion dynamic. This vision of the political is most clearly articulated by Carl Schmitt. The discussion of his view of the political demonstrates that the political based on the state form makes the project of global constitutionalism impossible. The only way forward is an open discussion of different visions of the political and a search for a more adequate vision of the political able to further the aims of global constitutionalism and its focus on individuals. The article discusses one of these alternative visions of the political, namely the concept of the coming politics and coming community as articulated by Giorgio Agamben. It demonstrates how with this vision of the political the project of global constitutionalism can conceive of a political community fully dedicated to the singularities of each individual human being without creating divisions. The article concludes that in order for global constitutionalism to continue as a viable project, an open and explicit discussion of the political is called for.

scholarly journals Digital Threats to Democracy: Comparative Lessons and Possible Remedies

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Miller ◽  
Cristian Vaccari
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
The World ◽  
State Interference

We introduce a special issue that collects eight articles, comprising research from twenty-three countries and four continents on the sources, impact on citizens, and possible remedies to various digital threats to democracy, ranging from disinformation to hate speech to state interference with online freedoms. We set these contributions against the backdrop of a profound change in how scholars think about the implications of digital media for democracy. From the utopianism that prevailed from the 1990s until the early 2010s, the post-2016 reckoning has led to a change in the kinds of questions scholars ask, with the focus gradually shifting to investigations of the threats, rather than the benefits, of the Internet. The eight contributions presented in this special issue employ a variety of disciplinary approaches and methods, often comparing different countries, to address some of the most pressing questions on how the Internet can hinder the feasibility and well-functioning of democracy around the world. We conclude by setting out three challenges for future research on digital media and politics: a growing but still partial understanding of the extent and impact of the main digital threats to democracy; the risk that the dominant approaches become overly pessimistic, or founded on weak normative grounds; and the risk that research overemphasizes direct and short-term implications of digital threats on individuals and specific groups at the expense of indirect and medium-term effects on collective norms and expectations of behavior.

scholarly journals Game Studies, Next Level? Nuevos horizontes para una disciplina emergente

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Salvador Gómez-García ◽  
◽  
Teresa de la Hera ◽  
Alfonso Cuadrado-Alvarado ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

After being forged over the last decades, the discipline of Game Studies has completed its theoretical and methodological foundations and has developed an institutional interest on the part of academics from all over the world. This thematic issue of the journal index.comunicación presents a compilation of studies related to the discipline of Game Studies, carried out in Spain and focused on the exploration of the future of a hetero-heterogeneous and transversal discipline. Specifically, the focus is on features of the narrative characteristics of games, their persuasive potential and their social influence. The main objective of this special issue is to consolidate a point of reflection on the present and future research on Game Studies.

scholarly journals Preface to the special issue of the Division Energy, Resources and the Environment at vEGU2021: Gather online​​​​​​​

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Viktor J. Bruckman ◽  
Gregor Giebel ◽  
Christopher Juhlin ◽  
Sonja Martens ◽  
Antonio P. Rinaldi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Future Research ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Joint Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Exchange ◽  
Space Sciences

Abstract. The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is one of the leading global bottom-up societies that promotes earth, planetary and space sciences. In its annual general assemblies, EGU brings together experts from all over the world to discuss cutting-edge research and implementation of findings in its respective disciplines and thus offers a unique forum for scientific exchange, science-policy interaction, and joint development of strategies for future research endeavours. This special issue in Advances in Geosciences comprises a collection of contributions from the Division Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) of the EGU, which were presented at the General Assembly 2021, vEGU2021: Gather online. It was held entirely online for the second time after EGU2020 from 19 to 30 April 2021.

scholarly journals Social exclusion in old age: domain-specific contributions to a debate

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Torres
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The World ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Research And Policy

Finding a suitable way to write an introduction to a Special Issue would seem to be a relatively easy task – at first glance. But when the Special Issue is dealing with a notion that is in the very midst of receiving momentum, the question arises of how one should begin, because although some potential readers may be acquainted with the topic at hand, others may have yet to understand that the topic is now in the process of conquering intellectual space. This Special Issue happens to be about such a topic. The topic of social exclusion in old age does not yet seem to be on the radar of North American scholars, for example, but has certainly become a topic to reckon with in Europe. Understanding how “the no tion of social exclusion has found its way into the lexicon of all major global governance institutions” (O’Brien & Penna 2008: 1) is what this introduction is all about. This Special Issue was, after all, first conceived as part of the series of special issues that the COST-action known as ROSENet (an acronym that stands for Reducing Old Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy; www.rosenet.com) would put together to raise awareness about old-age social exclusion – a phenomenon that deserves attention as populations around the world grow older and live longer….

The Power of Business

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Fuchs ◽  
Markus ML Lederer
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Business Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Dimensions ◽  
Dimensional Assessment ◽  
Different Levels

The introduction to the special issue develops a systematic and theoretically grounded framework for assessing business power in global governance. It is shown that power is said to have shifted from the world of states to the world of business. However, in order to evaluate such a claim first a differentiation of power in its instrumental, structural, and discursive facets is necessary. It is furthermore explained that the strength of such a three-dimensional assessment is that it combines different levels of analysis and considers actor-specific and structural dimensions and their material and ideational sources. Following a short introduction to the more empirical articles is provided summarizing their commonalities and differences.

scholarly journals European shipbuilding and ship repairs outside Europe: Problems, questions and some hypotheses

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-464
Author(s):  
Cátia Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Ship Repair ◽  
Dutch Experience

This special issue explains how and why European maritime powers resorted to ship repair and shipbuilding overseas, and how these activities, in multiple ways, justify a re-evaluation of the global impact of shipbuilding worldwide and the influence it had in defining overseas empires. The explanation and further considerations in the core articles examining the Dutch experience of shipbuilding and ship repairs overseas, in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, are based on original research, in which the Dutch experience is positioned in relation to what is known for the French, the English/British, the Portuguese and the Spanish empires. Rather, however, than aiming at a comparative approach to this subject, the goal of these articles is to produce a baseline of information that may lie at the core of future research in specific areas of the world, across different empires, or between regions in the same empire.

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