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NGOs and Corporations
Conflict and Collaboration
Michael Yaziji
IMD, Lausanne
Jonathan Doh
Villanova University, Pennsylvania

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We live in a period marked by the ascendency of corporations. At the same time, the number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – such as Amnesty International, CARE, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Save the Children, and the WWF – has rapidly increased in the last twenty years. As a result, these two very different types of organization are playing an increasingly important role in shaping our society, yet they often have very different agendas. This book focuses on the dynamic interactions, both conflictual and collaborative, that exist between corporations and NGOs. It includes rigorous models, frameworks, and case studies to document the various ways that NGOs target corporations through boycotts, proxy campaigns, and other advocacy initiatives. It also explains the emerging pattern of cross-sectoral alliances and partnerships between corporations and NGOs. This book can help managers, activists, scholars, and students to better understand the nature, scope, and evolution of these complex interactions.
• Provides a nuanced view of the relationship between NGOs and corporations by discussing both conflict and collaboration • Includes numerous case studies of NGO-corporate interactions allowing readers to see how NGOs and corporations interact in practice • Gives readers a broad introduction to NGOs with an extensive literature review.

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Child Soldiers
Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front
Myriam Denov
McGill University, Montréal

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Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse.
• The civil war in Sierra Leone was one of the most startling cases of the use of child soldiers with an estimated 48,000 children as combatants, 80% of whom were between the ages of 7 and 14 • Goes beyond mere description to provide a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding the lives and realities of child soldiers in Sierra Leone • Pays particular attention to the experiences and perspectives of girls and their post-conflict needs and realities, challenging the invisibility of gender in most academic and policy literature on armed conflict

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Is Democracy Exportable?
Edited by
Zoltan Barany
University of Texas, Austin
Robert G. Moser
University of Texas, Austin

Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? In this timely volume a distinguished group of political scientists seeks answers to these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as “democracy promotion.” Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?

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Cosmopolitan Regard
Political Membership and Global Justice
Richard Vernon


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Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, cosmopolitanism implies more demanding political obligations than theories of the state have traditionally recognized. Using examples including humanitarian intervention, international criminal law, and international political economy, Vernon suggests we have a responsibility not to enhance risks facing other societies and to assist them when their own risk-taking has failed. The central arguments in Cosmopolitan Regard are that what we owe to other societies rests on the same basis as what we owe to our own, and that a theory of cosmopolitanism must connect the responsibilities of citizens beyond their own borders with their obligations to one another.
• Seeks to redefine 'cosmopolitanism' as something that arises from citizenship, rather than competing with it • Explains what we owe to other societies as requirements of our own political obligations • Discusses critically some of the major current approaches to global justice.

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Human Security and Non-Citizens
Law, Policy and International Affairs
Edited by

Alice Edwards
Carla Ferstman

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The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. This volume of essays analyses these shifts in thinking and, in particular, critically engages with the concept of 'human security' from legal, international relations and human rights perspectives. Contributors consider the special circumstances of non-citizens, such as refugees, migrants, and displaced and stateless persons, and assess whether, conceptually and practically, 'human security' helps to address the multiple challenges they face.
• Provides a critical review of the emerging concept of human security within the specific context of displacement, migration and counter-terrorism • Interdisciplinary approach to theories of security will appeal to lawyers, international relations scholars and policy makers who wish to understand modern security debates in context • Analyses the different contexts of displacement and migration, helping the reader understand the causes and consequences of displacement and migration.

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The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict
Yoram Dinstein

This is the seminal textbook on the law of international armed conflict, written by a leading commentator on the subject. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking into account new developments in combat, numerous recent judicial cases (especially decisions rendered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), as well as topical studies and instruments. The text clarifies complex issues, offering solutions to practical combat dilemmas that have emerged in present-day battlefield situations. Several current (and controversial) subjects are examined in depth, including direct participation in hostilities, human shields, and air and missile warfare. Useful definitions and explanations have been added, making intricate problems easier to comprehend. The book is designed not only for students of international law, but also as a tool for the instruction of military officers.
• The definitive text on the conduct of hostilities by foremost commentator • Topical exploration, focusing on recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan • Successfully balances academic rigour and clear explanation.

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Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law
Edited by Lukas H. Meyer

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Do states or individuals stand under duties of international justice to people who live elsewhere and to other states? How are we to assess the legitimacy of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Security Council? Should we support reforms of international institutions and how should we go about assessing alternative proposals of such reforms? The book brings together leading scholars of public international law, jurisprudence and international relations, political philosophers and political theorists to explore the central notions of international legitimacy and global justice. The essays examine how these notions are related and how understanding the relationships will help us comparatively assess the validity of proposals for the reform of international institutions and public international law.
• Interdisciplinary perspective includes contributions by scholars of public international law, jurisprudence and international relations, political philosophers and political theorists • International backgrounds of contributors allow reader to learn about influential approaches and schools, and how they differ and complement one another • Contributions on central notions and their practical validity allow reader to learn about different levels of abstraction, modes of normative analysis and their relevance for policy-making.

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The Ethos of Europe
Values, Law and Justice in the EU
Andrew Williams
University of Warwick

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Can the EU become a 'just' institution? Andrew Williams considers this highly charged political and moral question by examining the role of five salient values said to be influential in the governance and law of the Union: peace, the rule of law, respect for human rights, democracy, and liberty. He assesses each of these as elements of an apparent 'institutional ethos' and philosophy of EU law and finds that justice as a governing ideal has failed to be taken seriously in the EU. To remedy this condition, he proposes a new set of principles upon which justice might be brought more to the fore in the Union's governance. By focusing on the realisation of human rights as a core institutional value, Williams argues that the EU can better define its moral limits so as to evolve as a more just project.
• Explores the history of key values in the EU, helping readers interpret the nature and influence of values on the law and actions of the EU • Provides a framework for analysis of the ethical dimensions of the EU and a means by which the history and current practices of the EU institutions can be better understood • Proposes a philosophical framework for redesigning the law and practice of the EU, which allows readers to contemplate new directions for the EU to follow

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Reason, Religion, and Democracy
Dennis C. Mueller

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This book also emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships, but it focuses much more heavily on the challenge religious extremism poses for liberal democratic institutions. The treatment contains a discussion of human psychology, describes the salient characteristics of all religions, and contrasts religion and science as systems of thought. Historical sketches are used to establish a link between modernity and the use of the human capacity for reasoning to advance human welfare. The book describes the conditions under which democratic institutions can advance human welfare, and the nature of constitutional rights as protectors of individual freedoms. Extremist religions are shown to pose a threat to liberal democracy, a threat that has implications for immigration and education policies and the definition of citizenship.
• Describes the threat that religious extremism poses for democracy • Gives a clear justification for majoritarian democracy • Describes the nature of constitutional rights and contrasts them with other notions such as natural rights.

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Intersectionality and Beyond
Law, Power and the Politics of Location
Edited by:
Emily Grabham
Davina Cooper
Jane Krishnadas
Didi Herman


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This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Intersectionality provides a metaphorical schema for understanding the interaction of different forms of disadvantage, including race, sexuality, and gender. But it also goes further to provide a particular model of how these aspects of social identity and location converge – whether at the level of subjectivity, everyday life, in culture or in the institutional practices of state and other bodies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a range of disciplines, most particularly law, political theory, and cultural studies.

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Accommodating Cultural Diversity
by Stephen Tierney

This book explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. It brings together philosophers and legal scholars to explore the inter-play between the normative precepts advanced by the former for the accommodation of cultural pluralism and the reality of that accommodation as it plays itself out in political and legal practice, as explained by the latter. The aim of the book is to provide a holistic picture of the constitutional management of cultural diversity through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences: theoretical and practical. Contributions come from Canada, Scotland and England and concentrate on two main case studies: a substantive study of the accommodation of indigenous peoples within different constitutional orders and, secondly, the role of the courts as their approach to cultural diversity evolves in complex pluralist democracies such as Australia, Canada and the UK.

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Rights, Race, and Recognition
Derrick Darby
University of Kansas

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What is the source of rights? Rights have been grounded in divine agency, human nature, and morally justified claims, and have been used to assess the moral status of legal and customary social practices. The orthodoxy is that some of our rights are a species of unrecognized or natural rights. For example, black slaves in antebellum America were said to have such rights, and this was taken to provide a basis for establishing the immorality of slavery. Derrick Darby exposes the main shortcomings of the orthodox conception of the source of rights and proposes a radical alternative. He draws on the legacy of race and racism in the USA to argue that all rights are products of social recognition. This bold, lucid and meticulously argued book will inspire readers to rethink the central role assigned to rights in moral, political, and legal theory as well as in everyday evaluative discourse.
• Challenges the standard, widely accepted views of moral and human rights • Lucidly written with the needs of students and non-specialists in mind • Contains a comprehensive bibliography that will aid further research

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The Cultural Politics of Human Rights
Comparing the US and UK
Kate Nash
Goldsmiths College, University of London

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How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction of poverty. Using an innovative methodology, this book maps the emergent 'intermestic' human rights field within the US and UK in order to investigate detailed case studies of the cultural politics of human rights. Kate Nash researches how the authority to define human rights is being created within states as a result of international human rights commitments. Through comparative case studies, she explores how cultural politics is affecting state transformation today.
• Develops novel concepts and an innovative methodology to study a new phenomenon of 'intermestic' rights • Analyses the human rights movement in the context of state transformation from within states in order to assess the varieties of nationalism which are now emerging • Features case studies - some of which have been highly controversial - in the media as well as for activists and professionals

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Reasonable disagreement: a theory of political morality
Christopher McMahon

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Christopher McMahon, a professor of philosophy at UC Santa Barbara, has a new take on disagreements –– particularly those that are political in nature. His most recent scholarly work could lead to a greater acceptance of differing points of view, or, at the very least, offer an explanation about why even the most well- reasoned arguments generally fail to bring everyone into agreement.
In his new book, "Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), McMahon examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. He argues that a "zone of reasonable disagreement" –– a range of possible positions that can be taken –– surrounds most questions of political morality, and that the zone evolves over time, so what might have been reasonable hundreds of years ago is not so today.
"There is an idea in political philosophy today that under ideal conditions people deliberating in good faith will reach a consensus about political policies that should be adopted," McMahon explained. "Central to that idea is the notion that when people argue opposite sides of an issue, someone is making a mistake, and through deliberation those mistakes can be identified and corrected. And if everyone's reasoning is correct, then consensus can be reached.
"My suggestion is that even after deliberation, and all mistakes in reasoning have been eliminated, people are still going to disagree," McMahon continued. "Deliberation makes people competent reasoners, but competent reasoning doesn't produce agreement." The fact that every political issue has a range of reasonable positions makes consensus virtually impossible. This does not mean that the people are reasonable all the time. "If you listen to political opinion in the United States, not everything you hear is an example of reasonable disagreement. A lot of it is, in fact, unreasonable," McMahon added.
McMahon's book also puts reasonable disagreement in historical perspective. Positions that could be reasonably held in the past, such as the endorsement of political hierarchy, can become unreasonable. "But when an issue –– such as the merits of capitalism versus socialism –– have been openly debated over an extended period of time with no resolution, there's good reason to believe that the people taking each position are reasoning competently," he said
Although a disagreement can be reasonable, it can also be marked by controversy because, according to McMahon, participants do not recognize arguments contrary to their own as reasonable, no matter how well-framed they may be. "People can agree to disagree in the sense that they realize they are not going to come to an agreement, but that doesn't mean either one thinks the other is reasoning well," he said. "I think we can understand more of what goes on in politics as reasonable disagreement if we realize that opposing positions aren't necessarily recognized as reasonable."
Given that political cooperation requires agreement, but that complete consensus is virtually impossible, some mechanism is necessary to determine which courses of action will be taken. "From that standpoint, democracy seems like a reasonable way of resolving political disagreements," McMahon said. "It's a fair way of deciding which policies are going to be enacted. It's not the only way, but it's a reasonable one."

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Rethinking Governance
The Centrality of the State in Modern Society
Stephen Bell

Andrew Hindmoor

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Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the strategies used by governments to help govern', the authors counter the view that governments have been decentred. They show that far from receding, states are in fact enhancing their capacity to govern by developing closer ties with non-government sectors. Identifying five 'modes' of government (governance through hierarchy, persuasion, markets and contracts, community engagement, and network associations), Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor use practical examples to explore the strengths and limitations of each. In so doing, they demonstrate how modern states are using a mixture of governance modes to address specific policy problems. This book demonstrates why the argument that states are being 'hollowed out' is overblown. Rethinking Governance refocuses our attention on the central role played by governments in devising governance strategies.
• Helps clarify and simplify often confusing approaches to governance • Unpacks a range of modes of governance and illustrates how these work via examples and cases • Brings insights from major political science debates to help develop our understanding of governance processes

Evento

5 Luglio 2010

ore 18,30

Cortile Steri di Palazzo Chiaramonte

Primo appuntamento della rassegna

SENZA ULTERIORI DIFFICOLTA'

Un interessante dibattito sulle problematiche del sud

interverranno:

Antonio Calabrò

Francesco Delzio

Vincenzo Scotti

Francesco Verderami

In evidenza

2 Luglio 2010

ore 16,00

Alan Scott

New Public Management in Perspective

Higher Education Reform in the UK and Austria

Dipartimento Studi su Politica, Diritto e Società

Aula Seminari

Piazza Bologni, 8

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Constitutional Courts and Democratic Values:
A European Perspective
Victor Ferreres Comella

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In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudicate constitutional questions, with a decentralized model, such as that of the United States, in which courts deal with both constitutional and nonconstitutional questions.

Comella’s systematic exploration of the reasons for and against the creation of constitutional courts is rich in detail and offers an ambitious theory to justify the European preference for them. Based on extensive research on eighteen European countries, Comella finds that centralized review fits well with the civil law tradition and structures of ordinary adjudication in those countries. Comella concludes that—while the decentralized model works for the United States—there is more than one way to preserve democratic values and that these values are best preserved in the parliamentary democracies of Europe through constitutional courts.

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H.L.A. Hart Di Neil MacCormick

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In this substantially revised second edition, Neil MacCormick delivers a clear and current introduction to the life and works of H.L.A. Hart, noted Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1952 to 1968. Hart established a worldwide reputation through his powerful philosophical arguments and writings in favor of liberalizing criminal law and applying humane principles to punishment. This book demonstrates that Hart also made important contributions to analytical jurisprudence, notably by clarifying many terms and concepts used in legal discourse, including the concept of law itself.Taking into account developments since the first edition was published, this book provides a constructively critical account of Hart's legal thought. The work includes Hart's ideas on legal reasoning, judicial discretion, the social sources of law, the theory of legal rules, the sovereignty of individual conscience, the notion of obligation, the concept of a right, and the relationship between morality and the law. MacCormick actively engages with current scholarly interpretations, bringing this accessible account of England's greatest legal philosopher of the twentieth century up-to-date.

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Legal reason: the use of analogy in legal argument
Lloyd L. Weinreb


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Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, urged by Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Richard Posner and others, which regards analogical reasoning as logically flawed or as a defective form of deductive reasoning. Lloyd Weinreb reveals that it is the same as the reasoning used routinely everyday--derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular, on which thought itself depends. Moreover, the use of analogical reasoning is dictated by the nature of law, which requires the application of rules to particular facts.

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Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs:
Philosophy for the White House
Jeremy Waldron

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Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has also tackled underlying questions essential to understanding the practical debates - including what terrorism is, and what a right to security would entail.This volume collects all Waldron's work on these issues, including six published essays and two previously unpublished essays. It also includes a new introduction in which Waldron presents an overview of his contribution, and looks at the problems currently facing the Obama administration and the UK Government in dealing with the legacy of the Bush White House.The volume will be essential reading for all those engaged with contemporary politics, security law, and the continuing struggle for an ethical response to terrorism.

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Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality
di Austin Sarat

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It is widely recognized that times of national emergency put legality to its greatest test. In such times we rely on sovereign power to rescue us, to hold the danger at bay. Yet that power can and often does threaten the values of legality itself. Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality examines law's complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts today's responses to emergency in historical and institutional context, reminding readers of the continuities and discontinuities in the ways emergencies are framed and understood at different times and in different situations. And, in all this, it suggests the need to be less abstract in the way we discuss sovereignty, emergency, and legality. This book concentrates on officials and the choices they make in defining, anticipating, and responding to conditions of emergency as well as the impact of their choices on embodied subjects, whether citizen or stranger.

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Constitutional review under the UK Human Rights Act
di Aileen Kavanagh

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Under the Human Rights Act, British courts are for the first time empowered to review primary legislation for compliance with a codified set of fundamental rights. In this book, Aileen Kavanagh argues that the HRA gives judges strong powers of constitutional review, similar to those exercised by the courts under an entrenched Bill of Rights. The aim of the book is to subject the leading case-law under the HRA to critical scrutiny, whilst remaining sensitive to the deeper constitutional, political and theoretical questions which underpin it. Such questions include the idea of judicial deference, the constitutional status of the HRA, the principle of parliamentary sovereignty and the constitutional division of labour between Parliament and the courts. The book closes with a sustained defence of the legitimacy of constitutional review in a democracy, thus providing a powerful rejoinder to those who are sceptical about judicial power under the HRA.

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En camino de una justicia global
Osvaldo Guariglia

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El presente libro se inscribe en una tradición que se remonta al menos hasta el siglo XVIII: el ensayo filosófico dedicado a reflexionar sobre la mejor organización política, aunque en este caso no del Estado#nación, como ocurrió entonces, sino de las formas de organización para el futuro gobierno global, que se halla aún en su etapa incipiente. Es, pues, una reflexión filosófica sobre el derecho internacional o, quizá mejor, de gentes, que recorre sus comienzos en la modernidad temprana, su transformación revolucionaria en la filosofía kantiana del derecho y del Estado y se enfoca, por último, en la tensión permanente entre una posición realista y otra normativa, que persiste en las concepciones de las relaciones internacionales hasta la actualidad. La renovación que produjo el libro póstumo de John Rawls sobre la filosofía del derecho internacional, reabrió viejos dilemas, como los principios de una sociedad de los pueblos, y planteó otros nuevos, que giran básicamente sobre los criterios de justicia en un mundo aún no globalizado pero sí en camino de un ordenamiento global. ÍNDICE (Resumen): Los fundamentos filosóficos del derecho de gentes en la modernidad temprana. La filosofía kantiana del derecho internacional y sus tesis para una paz perpetua. El desafío del realismo. Realismo versus juridicidad en las relaciones internacionales. La filosofía en la justicia internacional: un regreso por sus fueros. El tramo del camino abierto en el siglo XXI.

In evidenza

28 giugno 2010

ore 17,00

Dipartimento di Studi su Politica Diritto e Società

Piazza Bologni, 8

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SUMMER SCHOOL TOWARDS EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL TAX LAW

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Interverranno:

Rettore Prof. Roberto la Galla

Preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Prof. Giuseppe Verde

Preside della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Prof. Antonello Miranda

Preside della Facoltà di Economia, Prof. Fabio Mazzola

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Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
Essays 2002-2008
Thomas Nagel

This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place in the cosmos. It includes a defense of the relevance of religion to science education. The second section concerns the interpretation of liberal political theory, especially in an international context. A substantial essay argues that the principles of distributive justice that apply within individual nation-states do not apply to the world as a whole. The third section discusses the distinctive contributions of four philosophers to our understanding of what it is to be human - the form of human consciousness and the source of human values.

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Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen
Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education
Edited by Alan Reid, Judith Gill, Alan Sears

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The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. This book provides an overview of the development of civics and citizenship education policy across a range of nation states. The contributors, all widely respected scholars in the field of civics and citizenship education, provide a thorough understanding of the different ways in which citizenship has been taken up by educators, governments and the wider public. Citizenship is never a single given, unproblematic concept, but rather its meanings have to be worked through and developed in terms of the particularities of socio-political location and history. This volume promotes a wider and more grounded understanding of the ways in which citizenship education is enacted across different nation states in order to develop education for active and participatory citizenry in both local and global contexts.

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Illiberal Liberal States by
Elspeth Guild
Kees Groenendijk
Sergio Carrera


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Understanding the dynamics of the illiberal practices of liberal states is increasingly important in Europe today. This book examines the changing relationship and interaction between immigration, citizenship and integration at the European and national arenas. It studies some of the main effects and open questions as regards the comprehensiveness of the exchange and coordination of diverse public responses on the mobility and inclusion of third country nationals in Europe. As well as their compatibility with a common European immigration policy driven by a rights-based approach and the respect of the principles of fair and equal treatment of third country nationals. It reviews key national experiences regarding immigration and citizenship laws, the use that they are making of integration and the 'moving of ideas' between national arenas. The constructed framing of integration into immigration and citizenship law and the ways in which policy convergence is being achieved through the EU Framework on integration, raises a number of conceptual dilemmas and a set of definitional premises in need of reflection and consideration. These dilemmas and premises might put social inclusion and liberty at stake in the Union.

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The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
Richard A. Posner

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Following up on his timely and well-received book, A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.
By means of a lucid narrative of the crisis and a series of analytical chapters pinpointing critical issues of economic collapse and gradual recovery, Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another. He calls for fresh thinking about the business cycle that would build on the original ideas of Keynes. Central to these ideas is that of uncertainty as opposed to risk. Risk can be quantified and measured. Uncertainty cannot, and in this lies the inherent instability of a capitalist economy.
As we emerge from the financial earthquake, a deficit aftershock rumbles. It is in reference to that potential aftershock, as well as to the government’s stumbling efforts at financial regulatory reform, that Posner raises the question of the adequacy of our democratic institutions to the economic challenges heightened by the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis and the government’s energetic response to it have enormously increased the national debt at the same time that structural defects in the American political system may make it impossible to pay down the debt by any means other than inflation or devaluation.

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Plunder
When the Rule of Law Is Illegal
di: Ugo Mattei - Laura Nader

"Plunder" examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones - in the service of Western cultural and economic domination Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States Dares to ask the paradoxical question - is the Rule of Law itself illegal?

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How judges think
di Richard A. Posner


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Posner is unique in the world of American jurisprudence, a highly regarded U.S. appellate judge and a prolific and controversial writer on legal philosophy (The Little Book of Plagiarism). Opinionated, sarcastic and argumentative as ever, Posner is happy to weigh in not only on how judges think, but how he thinks they should think. When sticking to explaining the nine intellectual approaches to judging that he identifies, and to the gap between legal academics and judges, and his well-formulated pragmatic approach to judging, Posner is insightful, accessible, often funny and a model of clarity. When he charges off into longstanding arguments with fellow legal theorists (liberal commentator Ronald Dworkin, for one) or examines doctrinal discrepancies in the opinions of Supreme Court justices, he writes for a far more limited audience. For the record, although Justice Scalia is a favorite target, none of the Supreme Court nine escapes Posner's lethally sharp pen. Posner's two major points—that to a great extent judges make decisions based not on theory but on who they are, their gender, education, class and experiences, and that the Supreme Court is a political court regardless of what theory of constitutional interpretation justices claim—are well worthwhile and deeply rooted in common sense and experience.

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Territory, Authority, Rights:
From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Saskia Sassen


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Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority. This process of state making produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The difference is that these capabilities have become part of new organizing logics: actors other than nation-states deploy them for new purposes. Sassen builds her case by examining how three components of any society in any age--territory, authority, and rights--have changed in themselves and in their interrelationships across three major historical "assemblages": the medieval, the national, and the global.
The book consists of three parts. The first, "Assembling the National," traces the emergence of territoriality in the Middle Ages and considers monarchical divinity as a precursor to sovereign secular authority. The second part, "Disassembling the National," analyzes economic, legal, technological, and political conditions and projects that are shaping new organizing logics. The third part, "Assemblages of a Global Digital Age," examines particular intersections of the new digital technologies with territory, authority, and rights.
Sweeping in scope, rich in detail, and highly readable, Territory, Authority, Rights is a definitive new statement on globalization that will resonate throughout the social sciences.
Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Global City (Princeton), The Mobility of Labor and Capital, and Globalization and its Discontents, and coeditor of Digital Formations (Princeton). She has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, and International Herald Tribune.

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1688: the first modern revolution
di Steven C. A. Pincus

For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution—bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.

By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England’s revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688–1689.

James II developed a modernization program that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution—not the French Revolution—the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself

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Active Liberty
Interpreting a Democratic Constitution
Stephen G. Breyer

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. For Justice Breyer, the Constitution's primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls "active liberty": citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means recognizing the changing needs and demands of the populace. Indeed, the Constitution's lasting brilliance is that its principles may be adapted to cope with unanticipated situations, and Breyer makes a powerful case against treating it as a static guide intended for a world that is dead and gone. Using contemporary examples from federalism to privacy to affirmative action, this is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate over the role and power of our courts.

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National responsibility and global justice
di David Miller

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Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series will contain works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter.Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan. This book presents a non-cosmopolitan theory of global justice. In contrast to theories that seek to extend principles of social justice, such as equality of opportunity or resources, to the world as a whole, it argues that in a world made up of self-determining national communities, a different conception is needed. The book presents and defends an account of national responsibility which entails that nations may justifiably claim the benefits that their decisions and policies produce, while also being held liable for harms that they inflict on other peoples. Such collective responsibility extends to responsibility for the national past, so the present generation may owe redress to those who have been harmed by the actions of their predecessors. Global justice, therefore, must be understood not in terms of equality, but in terms of a minimum set of basic rights that belong to human beings everywhere. Where these rights are being violated or threatened, remedial responsibility may fall on outsiders. The book considers how this responsibility should be allocated, and how far citizens of democratic societies must limit their pursuit of domestic objectives in order to discharge their global obligations. The book presents a systematic challenge to existing theories of global justice without retreating to a narrow nationalism that denies that we have any responsibilities to the world's poor. It combines discussion of practical questions such as immigration and foreign aid with philosophical exploration of, for instance, the different senses of responsibility, and the grounds of human rights.

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Cristianesimo, libertà, democrazia
di Böckenförde Ernst-Wolfgang

Questa traduzione italiana di alcuni tra i più significativi saggi di Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde sul rapporto tra cristianesimo, libertà e democrazia si propone un duplice obiettivo: in primo luogo, favorire la conoscenza del pensiero teologico-politico di uno tra i più significativi intellettuali tedeschi contemporanei; in secondo luogo, introdurre nel dibattito civile, che si è aperto nel nostro Paese sul rapporto tra religione e politica, prospettive di pensiero e di azione di ampio respiro, fondate in modo serio e rigoroso su di una profonda cultura giuridica e teologica nutrite costantemente da un'attenta analisi storica

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Verità avvelenata

Buoni e cattivi nel dibattito pubblico
di D'Agostini Franca

Nella teoria dell'argomentazione si chiama "avvelenamento del pozzo" la procedura di delegittimazione che investe tutto ciò che una persona afferma. È solo una delle tante forme di fallacia, ossia di mossa argomentativa corretta in apparenza, che occulta ad arte la propria erroneità logica, allo scopo di ingannare. Di fallacie e di molto altro parla questo trattatello, con cui una delle più note filosofe italiane ci fa acquisire consapevolezza delle molteplici trame logiche e illogiche che governano il nostro dibattito pubblico: uno spazio costituito - e saturato - perlopiù da cattivi argomenti, soprattutto nel nostro presente pretesamente postideologico, che procede per contaminazione e avvelenamento sistematici della verità. Ma c'è una via d'uscita: il potere democratico è ancora nelle mani di chi ascolta e valuta gli argomenti dei politici, degli intellettuali, dei manipolatori dell'opinione pubblica. Quanto più si impara a valutare gli argomenti e a conoscere la fragilità e insieme l'imprescindibilità della verità, tanto più si indebolisce il veleno che infetta la comunicazione pubblica. Il solco è dunque ancora quello tracciato dall'antico precetto di ispirazione socratica: "insegnate ai cittadini ad argomentare bene, a seguire la dialettica dei concetti, e prevarranno i migliori".

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Ermanno Vitale
Difendersi dal potere

Ha ancora senso pensare al diritto di resistenza negli stati democratici di diritto? E innanzitutto: che cosa significa politicamente 'resistenza'? In cosa si differenzia da altre forme di opposizione e di cambiamento? Rispetto a chi o a che cosa è lecito o opportuno opporre resistenza? E ancora: è possibile porre un limite alla con-fusione dei poteri, ossia alle enormi capacità di influenza e condizionamento del potere economico e ideologico globalizzato? Ermanno Vitale analizza le tradizionali teorie del 'diritto di resistenza' alla luce delle nuove dimensioni che il potere politico, economico e ideologico ha assunto nel mondo contemporaneo e propone una definizione di resistenza costituzionale il cui scopo è difendere il patto sociale nel caso estremo in cui sia ragionevole dubitare dell'affidabilità delle garanzie istituzionali.

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Gestire i conflitti. Diritto, cultura, rituale
di Chase Oscar G.

Esiste un collegamento profondo e reciproco tra cultura e metodi di soluzione delle dispute. Questo è vero sia per le società con un livello meno progredito di complessità, sia per gli ordinamenti moderni, caratterizzati da regole processuali sofisticate ed elaborate. Per sostenere questa tesi, controcorrente rispetto alla generale convinzione che sia il sistema giuridico e processuale della "Giustizia" a influenzare la società, e non viceversa, Oscar G. Chase applica un approccio interdisciplinare e ricorre alle conoscenze e ai metodi dell'antropologia culturale. Spaziando dall'oracolo benge, a cui gli Azande dell'Africa delegano la risoluzione pubblica delle controversie, per arrivare alla norma processuale delle cause civili in America, Chase dimostra che, in ogni società, i metodi di gestione dei conflitti sono in gran parte riflesso della cultura cui appartengono: sono insomma culturalmente radicati e socialmente determinati e non costituiscono affatto, come si crede, un sistema autonomo, prodotto prevalentemente da professionisti ed esperti che agiscono isolati.

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Diritti e dignità umana
di Vincenti Umberto

Il legame tra diritti e dignità umana è un punto fermo nel pensiero giuridico corrente, fondato sul postulato che tutti gli uomini siano egualmente degni e si debbano reciproco rispetto per la comune umanità. Ma a questa accezione 'genetica' e ugualitaria della dignità umana, oggi prevalente, si sono contrapposte storicamente concezioni diverse, elitarie e subordinate all'esito dell'azione individuale. Umberto Vincenti risale alle origini classiche del concetto di dignitas hominis e ne ricostruisce il lungo percorso, fino alla odierna formulazione dei diritti: umani, inviolabili, fondamentali, della personalità.