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Transnational Democracy (STG-MA-ECR-TND)

STG-MA-ECR-TND

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The premise of this course is that one of the most fundamental struggles of world politics will be around the contours of the “third democratic transformation”. The rise of both interdependence and global governance have led to the need to think and implement “democracy beyond the state” or transnational democracy, but there is no agreement on what this may mean both conceptually and empirically. Yet, this is a crucial question, for there is no sustainable transnational governance without anchoring its continued legitimacy in the “will of the people” or rather “peoples” as interconnected sovereigns. We will ask how geopolitical dynamics, resistance against state and corporate capture, technological change as well as ideational contestation have affected democracy’s recent, complicated history of progressive extension; what are the alternative designs for transnational democracy; and what institutional and policy implications follow from various questions. As their core assignment, students will be asked to reflect on how democratic innovations may best address the dilemma that we face.

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