Global SocietyPub Date : 2023-01-10DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2023.2164921
Aydin Atilgan
{"title":"Global Constitutionalism and the Rise of Authoritarianism: A New Era of “Sad Resignation”?","authors":"Aydin Atilgan","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2023.2164921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2023.2164921","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global constitutionalism is a multifaceted discourse with the objective of building up global law by reconstructing international law and constitutional law. It promises much to better comprehend the black holes of globalisation, including its relationship to the rule of law. This discourse’ expansive scope necessitates questioning its relationship to ongoing discourses on the recent global rise of authoritarianism. However, global constitutionalism discourse is heavily shaped by normative theories that reflect limited, discrete and subjective views on the global order that fail to mirror intersubjective meanings of the central subjects of the discourse. This article will examine the relationship between global constitutionalism and authoritarianism beyond this framework and will introduce “global constitutional culture” as the factual background of the global constitutionalism discourse. In doing so, this paper will seek reconceptualization of the global constitutionalism discourse in view of multidimensional aspects thereof, including liberal and emancipatory claims attributed to it.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"549 - 570"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46001139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2155115
Andrea Schapper, Linda Wallbott, Katharina Glaab
{"title":"The Climate Justice Community: Theoretical Radicals and Practical Pragmatists?","authors":"Andrea Schapper, Linda Wallbott, Katharina Glaab","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2155115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2155115","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to promote a better understanding of the link between normative climate justice claims—originating in Political Theory and Philosophy—and concrete social practices of the climate justice movement active at the international climate negotiations. We argue that the climate justice movement can be understood as a community of practice. Empirically, we zoom into this community of practice and comparatively analyse three case studies on human rights networks, faith-based groups and gender justice advocates. Methodologically, our analysis is based on a review of primary and secondary documents, participatory observations and expert interviews at the climate negotiations in Warsaw (2013), Bonn (2014), and Paris (2015) and via skype/phone (2013–2016). Our analysis reveals that each network within the community of practice—even those with more radical objectives—minimise the demands formulated at the outset in order to successfully cooperate with state negotiators.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"397 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45698979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-12-10DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2153330
Clara della Valle, Francesco Strazzari
{"title":"Grasping Local Participation: The Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Western Balkans and North Africa","authors":"Clara della Valle, Francesco Strazzari","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2153330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2153330","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on those “points of fracture” (Kirby and Shepherd 2020, 12) that have manifested in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Mediterranean region by examining National Action Plans (NAPs) in two distinct sub-regions – the Western Balkans and North Africa. We develop a comparative framework to shed light on the dimension of participation of these plans in four countries where the debate on WPS has reached different stages: Bosnia–Herzegovina, Kosovo, Tunisia and Morocco. By empirically investigating participation as both modality and focus of WPS debate and practice in these countries, we show that NAPs are unable to produce “meaningful local ownership” (Basini and Ryan 2016, 390) and that the international discourse on WPS should be re-thought to resonate with women’s needs, experiences and perspectives in post-conflict and post-revolutionary settings.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"527 - 548"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42362010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2147812
Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland, Chris Hennigan
{"title":"The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Domestic Conflict","authors":"Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland, Chris Hennigan","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2147812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2147812","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An emerging field of scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing posits that AI has the potential to significantly alter political and economic landscapes within states by reconfiguring labor markets, economies, and political alliances, leading to possible societal disruptions. Thus, this study examines the potential destabilizing economic and political effects AI technology can have on societies and the resulting implications for domestic conflict based on research within the fields of political science, sociology, economics, and artificial intelligence. In addition, we conduct interviews with 10 international AI experts from think tanks, academia, multinational technology companies, the military, and cyber to assess the possible disruptive effects of AI and how they can affect domestic conflict. Lastly, the study offers steps governments can take to mitigate the potentially destabilizing effects of AI technology to reduce the likelihood of civil conflict and domestic terrorism within states.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"375 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41815497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2146576
Deborah Stienstra
{"title":"(Th)reading Rights and Justice: Women and Girls with Disabilities","authors":"Deborah Stienstra","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2146576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2146576","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue to face systemic marginalisation and gaps in rights protections that limit their access to education, health, public services, and justice. Research in transnational and international relations offers little to help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements of justice as redistributive, recognition, participative and restorative address people with disabilities as well as how disability rights within the United Nations treaty body system address the four elements of justice. Drawing on both academic and community critiques of both disability rights and justice, the article asks how our understandings of justice and rights perpetuate these exclusions and what transformative changes are required to redress the marginalisation of women and girls with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"354 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46100752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2123306
D. Asante
{"title":"Civil society and counter-terrorism governance: implementing the WPS agenda in Nigeria","authors":"D. Asante","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2123306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2123306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women-led civil society activism contributed to the adoption of the WPS Agenda and the Security Council’s recognition of these organisations as key WPS actors. However, civil society organisations (CSOs) are often allocated tokenistic roles during the national implementation of WPS resolutions. Drawing on Sabatier and Jenkin-Smith’s Advocacy Coalition Framework, this study analyses 35 semi-structured interviews and surveys with CSOs and state WPS actors in Nigeria to explore the opportunities provided and the methods used by the Nigerian government to engage civil society in processes to implement UNSCR 2242 as political measures. The article highlights that UNSCR 2242 can be used by CSOs to advocate for political participation within processes to implement CT/CVE measures. However, the implementation of the Resolution exposes these actors to greater risks in the domestic context. Further, operationalising WPS as a policy provides insights into how CSOs utilise their interaction within political sub-systems to influence policy processes.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"84 5","pages":"420 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41274887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-09-13DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2119944
Gianfranco Brusaporci, N. Cohen
{"title":"The role of individuals in social movements: the rise of policy entrepreneurs in Bulgaria during the first Borisov Cabinet","authors":"Gianfranco Brusaporci, N. Cohen","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2119944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2119944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the question of how policy entrepreneurs influence the behaviour of social movements. It does so by presenting a new framework for analyzing social movements or collective action that emphasises the important role of individuals. In particular, it offers a systematic study of social movement leaders using the literature of policy entrepreneurship. We identify five areas that should be considered when assessing how policy entrepreneurs can foster policy or political changes in their society: (1) the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, (2) variations in their goals, (3) the characteristics and abilities of policy entrepreneurs, (4) their strategies and (5) the potential outcomes. We then place these changes on a 6-point continuum ranging from least extreme to most extreme. In testing our theoretical framework using the case study of Bulgarian protests against the First Borisov Cabinet, we develop theoretical insights that could be generalised to other social movements worldwide.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"444 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41404167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2113040
Amin Samman, R. Palan
{"title":"Systemic Unreason: A Psychic History of States and Corporations","authors":"Amin Samman, R. Palan","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2113040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2113040","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The history of capitalism has long been told as a story of structural laws and behavioural axioms. In this essay, we sketch a general theory of order and change that instead foregrounds the path-shaping power of the fictive and the irrational. Our key claim is that any collective body is underwritten by psychological investment in a foundational delusion and that this cuts two ways. Visions of wholeness and narratives of closure are what bind individuals to institutions, reproducing patterns of behaviour and thereby lending stability to the interactions that structure world affairs. Yet these same fictions sometimes set disruptive processes into motion. Order and change can therefore be understood in terms of a grand historical psychodrama, wherein the mythical origins and shared hallucinations associated with modernity’s key institutions—such as those of state and corporation—continually return to haunt and reshape the logics of the so-called world system.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"336 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47976161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2110042
Joan Miró
{"title":"Responding to the global disorder: the EU's quest for open strategic autonomy","authors":"Joan Miró","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2110042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2110042","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article traces the emergence of a novel interpretive platform in EU politics, one that understands that an array of post-Great Recession changes in the global political economy are calling for a reassessment of the EU's long-established approach to globalisation. The article argues that this rethinking is organised around the concept of “open strategic autonomy”, by which is meant an endeavour to reduce the EU's external dependencies in a range of critical sectors. The article identifies the conceptual bases that inform the quest for strategic autonomy by examining the reforms prompted by this quest in industrial, competition, trade, digital, financial and defence policy. A conclusion arising from the analysis is that the relationship between European integration and global capitalism does not only concern the external policy domains of the EU, but also internal ones, in fact having key implications for the political economy of state intervention at the EU level.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"315 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41918542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global SocietyPub Date : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2022.2110041
Farai Chipato, David Chandler
{"title":"The Black Horizon: Alterity and Ontology in the Anthropocene","authors":"Farai Chipato, David Chandler","doi":"10.1080/13600826.2022.2110041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2022.2110041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper makes the case for an approach to International Relations in the Anthropocene, which draws upon resources from critical Black studies. This distinctive perspective is set out in comparison to two, more familiar, sets of critical Anthropocene thought, that have been influential in contemporary discussions of global politics. We heuristically frame these as the “Planetary” - a focus on ontology and vibrant and unruly materiality – and the “Pluriversal” - which places race and coloniality at the centre of our understanding of power and knowledge. We suggest that Planetary approaches underestimate the centrality of race and coloniality to questions of ontology and that Pluriversal approaches are often undermined by a failure to take ontology more seriously. These literatures are opposed to a third perspective, which we call the “Black Horizon”, which troubles our approach to alterity and works with a non- or para-ontological understanding of being.","PeriodicalId":46197,"journal":{"name":"Global Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"157 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47731116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}