1st Edition
How Democracy Survives Global Challenges in the Anthropocene
Introduction
Michael Holm and R. S. Deese
Part I: The Forgotten Promise of 1945
1. The Other American Dream: The One World Order and Human Rights
Michael Holm
2. We Were Once Colonized: Nehru, India and Afro-Asianism at the United Nations
Swapna Kona Nayudu
3. The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes and Chapter VI of the UN Charter: Forgotten ‘Cardinal Feature’ of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals?
Maja Groff
4. The Postwar European Integration Process and the Progressive Construction of a Supranational Legal Order
Susanna Cafaro
5. Democracy and the Spectacle of Consent: The Forgotten Promise of the United Nations
R. S. Deese
Part II: Globalizing Consent
6. Perceived Inequality and Democratic Support: A Close Analysis from the Asian Barometer Survey
Yu-tzung Chang and Osbern Huang
7. Africa, its Diaspora, Transitional Justice, and Global Democracy: Towards a World Parliament
Tim Murithi
8. ‘World Organization Through Democracy’: Clarence Streit and the Genesis of the Present World Order
Tiziana Stella
9. Current Proposals for Closer Cooperation among Democracies
John J. Davenport
10. Representation and Participation of Citizens at the United Nations: The Democratic Legitimacy of the UN and Ways to Improve It
Andreas Bummel
Part III: Confronting the Anthropocene
11. The Climate Commons and the Survival of Democracy
Spencer R. Weart
12. Democracies, Authoritarians, and Climate Change: Do Regime Types Matter?
Daniel J. Fiorino
13. Democracy to Avert Ecocide
Camila Vergara
14. What Disaster Response Can Teach Us about Democracy in the Anthropocene
Malka Older
15. Democracy in the Age of Automation, Robotics, and Advanced AI
Michael Bess
Epilogue
Michael Holm and R. S. Deese
Biography
Michael Holm teaches at Boston University, USA.
R. S. Deese teaches at Boston University, USA.
