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  • Legitimacy Beyond the State?

    Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic foundations to NGOs and social movements. This leads to innovative interpretations of democratic legitimacy in a transnational context. ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Democracy

    Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions

    by Eva Erman ...
    This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman problematizes the absence of political rights in the global human rights discourse from a ... Read more

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  • Global Slump

    The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

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  • Weapons of Mass Migration

    Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy

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    **IR theorists, foreign policy analysts and migration, security studies, and human rights scholars will all find this book a valuable addition to their scholarship.**â• Political Studies ReviewAt first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Contestation

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