John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces ...currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life. Keane's reflections are pitted against the widespread feeling that the world is both too complex and too violent to deserve serious reflection. His account borrows from various scholarly disciplines, including political science and international relations, to challenge the silence and confusion within much of contemporary literature on globalisation and global governance. Against fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', the defence of global civil society mounted here implies the need for new democratic ways of living.
Theory and Practice Shapiro, Ian; Decew, Judith Wagner
10/1996, Letnik:
2
eBook
With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practice focuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this ...comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the most influential thinkers of our generation including Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nussbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt. What are the relations between philosophical theories and everyday life? This question, as old as it is profound, is the central focus of Theory and Practice. The contributors include some of the most influential thinkers of our generation, among them Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nessbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt. In sixteen chapters--all published here for the first time - the authors examine major attempts to reconcile theory with practice in the Western tradition from Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle to Kant and Heidegger. Considerable attention is devoted to the role of theory in judicial decision-making, debates between defenders of the value of pure theory and those who argue for the priority of practice, the political implications of theory, practical problems such as global warming, and the theoretical commitments of practitioners from Karl Marx to Vaclav Havel. One of the most expansive volumes in the NOMOS series to date, Theory and Practice will be of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists from a wide range of disciplines.
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay / Ian Shapiro
04/2009
eBook
This authoritative edition of the complete texts of theFederalist Papers
,the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution features supporting essays ...in which leading scholars provide historical context and analysis.
An introduction by Ian Shapiro offers an overview of the publication of theFederalist
Papersand their importance. In three additional essays, John Dunn explores the composition of theFederalist Papersand the conflicting agendas of its authors; Eileen Hunt Botting explains how early advocates of women's rights, most prominently Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, and Charles Brockden Brown, responded to the Federalist-Antifederalist debates; and Donald Horowitz discusses theFederalist Papersfrom the perspective of recent experiments with democracy and constitution-making around the world. These essays both illuminate the original texts and encourage active engagement with them.
La contención es la política de seguridad nacional elegida por los demócratas cosmopolitas. Algunas personas consideran que los demócratas cosmopolitas deberían pugnar por un gobierno mundial, ...perspectiva que parece incompatible con el respaldo a una estrategia de seguridad nacional, como la contención. Los argumentos comunes a favor de esta perspectiva se revelan falaces. La contención exhibe más afinidades electivas con el ideal democrático de la no dominación que las alternativas existentes. En una era de regímenes dictatoriales, estados débiles y amenazas terroristas itinerantes, una efectiva política de contención requiere de legitimación de parte de las instituciones internacionales y de la cooperación con otros estados mediante alianzas regionales. /// The cosmopolitan democrats' national security policy of choice is containment. Some believe that cosmopolitan democrats should support world government, a view that seems incompatible with endorsing any national security strategy such as containment. The arguments commonly given to support this view are fallacious. Containment shows more elective affinities with the democratic ideal of non-domination than with any existing alternatives. In an era of rogue regimes, weak states and itinerant terrorist threats, effective containment requires legitimization through international institutions and cooperation with other states through regional alliances.
Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth ...century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting, and dimensional manipulation are not sufficiently harmful, frequent, or irremediable, he argues, to be of normative concern. Mackie also examines every serious empirical illustration of cycling and instability, including Riker's famous argument that the US Civil War was due to arbitrary dimensional manipulation. Almost every empirical claim is erroneous, and none is normatively troubling, Mackie says. This spirited defence of democratic institutions should prove both provocative and influential.
Shapiro develops and extends his argument for problem-driven over method-driven approaches to the study of politics. He argues that political theorists have an important role to play in scrutinizing ...accepted accounts of political reality: Exhibiting their presuppositions, both empirical and normative, and posing alternatives.
POLITICAL PARTIES AND PUBLIC POLICY SALAS, CHRISTIAN; ROSENBLUTH, FRANCES MCCALL; SHAPIRO, IAN
Nomos (New York, N.Y.),
01/2020, Letnik:
63
Journal Article
Chronic communal conflicts often embody prisoner's dilemmas. Both communities prefer peace to war. Yet neither trusts the other, viewing the other's gain as its loss, so potentially shared interests ...often go unrealized. Achieving positive-sum outcomes from apparently zero-sum struggles requires a particular kind of risk-embracing leadership. To succeed leaders must (a) see power relations as potentially positive-sum, (b) strengthen negotiating adversaries when tempted to weaken them, and (c) demonstrate hope for a positive future and take great personal risks to achieve it. Such leadership is exemplified by Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in the South African democratic transition. To illuminate the strategic dilemmas Mandela and de Klerk faced, we examine the work of Robert Axelrod, Thomas Schelling, and Josep Colomer, who highlight important dimensions of the problem but underplay the role of risk-embracing leadership. Finally we discuss leadership successes and failures in the Northern Ireland settlement and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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