In order to understand how the global normative order reacts (or should react) to these shifts we will compare five cases of opposition, in which we explore the self-perceptions of oppositional actors, their objectives, but also analyze to what extent their claims resonate with the institutions of global governance. Our prime hypothesis is that opposition radicalizes if it is not granted opportunities to make its dissent heard.
In addition to inquiring into how global governance institutions actually respond to opposition, we moreover pursue a normative research agenda, asking how these institutions should deal with opposition. We will thus reflect upon the theoretical foundations of opposition in democratic theory and explore whether these conceptions of the role of opposition in political systems are also applicable to the global realm.
The Quest for a 'New Deal': Opposition and the Global Poitical Order
The research project "The Quest for a New Deal. Opposition and the Global Political Order" was initiated in the summer 2010 and explores how normative orders respond to opposition. In the age of postnationalism, a dense web of global norms and institutions increasingly intrudes into what was previously regarded as the domaine réservé of nation-states. At the same time, the power-balance underlying the global political order is being unsettled, foreshadowing the turn towards a multi-polar system. These twin developments have generated a plurality of expectations regarding the the nature of the global political order and new conflicts have begun to emerge as a result.
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Publications in this project:
- Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wisotzki, Simone; Wolff, Jonas (2011): Frieden first: Das Werk von Harald Müller auf dem Weg zu „Just Peace Governance“, in: Just Peace Governance, hrsg. von Claudia Baumgart, Una Becker, Niklas Schörnig, Simone Wisotzki, Jonas Wolff, Nomos.
Details - Deitelhoff, Nicole (2010): Parallele Universen oder Verschmelzung der Horizonte?, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 2/2010, 279-292.
Details - Reinold, Theresa (2011): State Weakness, Irregular Warfare, and the Right to Self-Defense Post-9/11, in: American Journal of International Law 105: 2, 244-286.
Details - Reinold, Theresa (2011): The United States and the Responsibility to Protect: Impediment, Bystander, or Norm Leader? in: Global Responsibility to Protect, 3:1, 2011, 61-87.
Details - Reinold, Theresa (2010): The Responsibility to Protect: Much Ado about Nothing? in: Review of International Studies 36: Special Issue S1, 55-78.
Details | Link to full text - Reinold, Theresa (2009): Sovereignty as Responsibility? Die USA, der konditionale Souveränitätsbegriff und das jus ad bellum, in: Die Friedenswarte, 84: 1, 2009, S. 101-123.
Details - Thiel, Thorsten (2012): Republikanismus und die Europäische Union. Eine Neubestimmung des Diskurses um die Legitimität europäischen Regierens
Details - Thiel, Thorsten (2011): Die Europäische Union - eine republikanische Ordnung. In: Gröschner, Rolf/Lembcke, Oliver W. (2011): Freistaatlichkeit. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck
Details - Thiel, Thorsten (2010): Rezension zu James Tully: Public Philosophy in a New Key. Neue Politische Literatur Jg. 55 (3), 2010.
Details - Wallbott, Linda (2011): Doppelter Temperaturanstieg. Gesundheitsfolgen des Klimawandels in Bangladesch, in: Besserung in Sicht? Gesundheitsversorgung in Bangladesch, NETZ. Die Bangladesch-Zeitschrift 3/2011: 15-18.
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