Conceptualizing Global Orders

(Friedrich Arndt)

Normative orders are based on a systematic connection of norms that legitimize a societal structure.  They “serve the justification of claims of validity and, based on this, of authority and a certain distribution of goods and life chances” (as this Excellence Cluster’s proposal puts the point).  Traditionally, the democratic nation-state has been seen as a unified, constitutionally circumscribed normative order, while the normative content of the international level—characterized by the absence of a world constitution or similar governing forces—was considered to be comparatively thin.  However, especially since the end of the Cold War, this situation has been undergoing a process of change and new constellations of international, transnational, supranational, and global normative orders have been emerging—normative orders whose relations to each other, in comparison to domestic standards and owing to their often uncoordinated emergence, can typically be characterized as overlapping, fragmented, and irregular.

This panel seeks to elaborate on the possibilities of conceptualizing and classifying the multiplicity of normative orders beyond the nation-state; to describe those normative orders’ interrelationships; and to address the critical role of both sanctioning mechanisms and processes of justification as part of their interactions and dynamic development across time.

We therefore invite contributions conceptualizing this phenomenon theoretically or analyzing it empirically (particularly with an eye toward the practical interactions of two or more normative orders).  Proposals may come from the field of international relations or any of a variety of related disciplines.

Sonntag, 25.10.
IG Farben-Gebäude 457

9.00-9.20 Uhr   
Sandra Destradi (Hamburg): Regions as Normative Orders? Norm Diffusion and Norm Clashes in a Multi-Level Context

9.20-9.40 Uhr   
Ulf Kemper (Duisburg-Essen): Politische Legitimität im Wandel – Reflexionen zur Demokratisierung des politischen Raumes jenseits des Nationalstaats

9.40-10.00 Uhr   
Bastian Loges (Braunschweig): Gekommen, um zu bleiben? Die Entstehung der „Responsibility to Protect“ und die Beratungen des UN-Sicherheitsrats

10.00-10.30 Uhr   
Diskussion

10.30-10.45 Uhr   
Kaffeepause

10.45-11.05 Uhr   
Henrik Schillinger (Bamberg/Duisburg-Essen): Die Politik der Gerechtigkeit – Die symbolische Kraft von Normen und der Wandel globaler  Ordnungen

11.05-11.25 Uhr   
Andreas von Staden (Darmstadt)/Angela Marciniak (Darmstadt): Ordnungspluralismus und politische Legitimität

11.25-12.15 Uhr   
Diskussion