Charting the way since 1939 toward democratic world organization starting with a federal nucleus of democracies https://teapawt.org/t.co/Od4olYiy1Y
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My book (monograph) with @OUPAcademic will available in a month and a half. Interplanetary Liberty: Building Free Societies in the Cosmos. It's a classical liberal view on space settlement because, well, I'm a bit of an 18th C classical liberal basically.
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In 1975 Goodman published the twin book
The Fate of the Atlantic Community
Goodman was a supporter of Clarence Streit's ideas that shared sovereignty & guardrails to protect democracy were critical to any viable design able to counter both despotic world government & destruction
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📺 NEW TALK: "Is democracy dying?" In the 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has not flourished, even as many predicted it would. My new talk from TEDxBerlin explains why, and offers ideas for what we might do to turn things around.
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For more context on @davetroy's reference to Clarence Streit's Union Now see a bit I wrote on his impact and ideas
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📺 NEW TALK: "Is democracy dying?" In the 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has not flourished, even as many predicted it would. My new talk from TEDxBerlin explains why, and offers ideas for what we might do to turn things around.
america2.news/is-democracy-d…
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Two decades later, it's not clear that we have managed to avoid this outcome. We seem still to have the same problem, but in a deeper, more intractable way.
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Writing in the aftermath of 9/11, Deudney was concerned that liberal democracy could become "a historical anachronism," terminating the republican project:
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In Publius before Kant, Daniel Deudney argues that it was federal union that allowed representative democracy to survive competition with large despotic empires:
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In his latest post for us, @bmstudebaker argues for a federal system based on a kind of pluralism that incorporates both liberal and non-liberal perspectives:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
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In his new piece, @bmstudebaker makes the case that a growing division between college and non-college educated citizens must be reflected at the level of federal procedures:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
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In his latest piece, @bmstudebaker suggests that the concept of individual sovereignty points beyond itself. In his federal system, a plurality of citizen self-understandings become possible:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
In his latest piece, @bmstudebaker suggests that the concept of individual sovereignty points beyond itself. In his federal system, a plurality of citizen self-understandings become possible:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
In his new piece, @bmstudebaker makes the case that a growing division between college and non-college educated citizens must be reflected at the level of federal procedures:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
In his latest post for us, @bmstudebaker argues for a federal system based on a kind of pluralism that incorporates both liberal and non-liberal perspectives:
streitcouncil.org/post/why-f…
In Publius before Kant, Daniel Deudney argues that it was federal union that allowed representative democracy to survive competition with large despotic empires:
Writing in the aftermath of 9/11, Deudney was concerned that liberal democracy could become "a historical anachronism," terminating the republican project:
But today, people seem more inclined to abandon democracy or to redefine it so as to limit or exclude this content. These political capacities seem to have been lost or surrendered.