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Cours Année : 2016

Global Democracy

Yves Schemeil

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International organizations such as the UN the EU, NATO, the WTO, the IAEA and the WMO/IPCC recently became more autonomous, and beneficiated from a wider coverage. In spite of their growing importance and impact on world affairs, their role and their functions are little studied and remain mysterious to a large audience. Such organizations are nonetheless empowered and enlightened in the process of negotiating international agreements. They cooperate within networks of interdependence, which trespass their initial realms of specialization. Eventually, such networks may evolve towards a more institutionalized world in which a number of challenges will be addressed in collaboration. Several strategic questions must be raised. Will networking bring more effectiveness to their outcomes? Will it actually improve the quality of democracy at world level? Success in these two directions depends firstly on these organizations’ capacity to work together in the long run, beyond national boundaries and sovereignties as well as across sectors, mobilizing all sorts of global stakeholders such as NGOs, global firms, think tanks and epistemic communities, Unions, Foundations, etc. Secondly, it will also result from the inclusion of emerging powers like Brazil, China and India that may balance between joining the club of existing hegemonic countries as it is now, reform the institutions they accessed to make them fit better their own goals, or create a full-fledged alternative system of transnational structures. It will all depend on the robustness and impact of a cosmopolitan organizational culture in the making, and on its strength compared to national or regional cultures. Together, such networks of transnational organizations form a new public space. Consequently, the sites of their multilateral negotiations matter: do existing forums make room to new actors’ demands and therefore become more representative of world society? The objectives of the course are to become more familiar with these new actors that are often neglected in the scholarly literature and the media; to review their collaborative behavior and joint ventures; to investigate their capabilities to foster democracy, accountability, and transparency in their fields of activities; to assess the content of the new global culture they tend to promote above the national identities of their members. Students will be encouraged to focus on one or two organizations in order to contribute to the debate about their contribution to a more representative world. If the conditions are met, they may participate in a simulation game about a specific negotiation that would be both transorganizational and transcultural.
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Yves Schemeil. Global Democracy. Master. Global Democracy, Akita International University, Japan, Japan. 2016. ⟨cel-02021050⟩
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