Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?)

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism

Human Rights and Global Democracy

O ver the past dozen years or so democratic theorists and activists have become increasingly worried about globalization’s adverse effects on democracy. Their concerns include: (1) democratic deficits, or the lack of democratic control over existing intergovernmental and supranational governance structures such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the European Union (EU); (2) democratic ...

Global Governance without Global Government ?

1 Author’s Note: I would like publicly to thank the students in my fall 2006 graduate seminar on “Globalization and Democratic Theory” at Indiana University (Bloomington) for a series of lively discussions on Habermas’s writings on globalization. As they will see, they “won” the argument, since many of their astute critical observations and insights inspired my remarks here. Global Governance w...

Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy

Global constitutionalism, applied to global health governance: uncovering legitimacy deficits and suggesting remedies

BACKGROUND Global constitutionalism is a way of looking at the world, at global rules and how they are made, as if there was a global constitution, empowering global institutions to act as a global government, setting rules which bind all states and people. ANALYSIS This essay employs global constitutionalism to examine how and why global health governance, as currently structured, has strugg...