How Democracy Survives: Global Challenges in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9781032111421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Holm, Michael

Opis

How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: The Forgotten Promise of 1945  1. The Other American Dream: The One World Order and Human Rights  2. We Were Once Colonized: Nehru, India and Afro-Asianism at the United Nations  3. The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes and Chapter VI of the UN Charter: Forgotten ‘Cardinal Feature’ of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals?  4. The Postwar European Integration Process and the Progressive Construction of a Supranational Legal Order  5. Democracy and the Spectacle of Consent: The Forgotten Promise of the United Nations  Part II: Globalizing Consent  6. Perceived Inequality and Democratic Support: A Close Analysis from the Asian Barometer Survey  7. Africa, its Diaspora, Transitional Justice, and Global Democracy: Towards a World Parliament  8. ‘World Organization Through Democracy’: Clarence Streit and the Genesis of the Present World Order  9. Current Proposals for Closer Cooperation among Democracies  10. Representation and Participation of Citizens at the United Nations: The Democratic Legitimacy of the UN and Ways to Improve It  Part III: Confronting the Anthropocene  11. The Climate Commons and the Survival of Democracy  12. Democracies, Authoritarians, and Climate Change: Do Regime Types Matter?  13. Democracy to Avert Ecocide  14. What Disaster Response Can Teach Us about Democracy in the Anthropocene  15. Democracy in the Age of Automation, Robotics, and Advanced AI  Epilogue