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Modernization Theory and “Third Wave Democracy”: Internal and External Impediments to Democracy and Development

CESRAN Int.7 May 20167 May 2016

Introduction Known mostly for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order(1996) Samuel Huntington, like Francis Fukuyama (End of History and the Last Man, 1992), caught the...

Politics

Non-human Democracy: Putting Inspirations, Lessons and Analogies to Work

CESRAN Int.21 February 20167 May 2016

This is the final part of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species. Part two argues that our all-too-human conception of democracy...

Politics

Non-human Democracy: In the Anthropocene, It cannot be All About Us

CESRAN Int.21 February 20167 May 2016

This is part two of a three-part essay. Part one asks why democratic research has all but ignored non-human species, and considers how much we might gain from them in...

Politics

Non-human Democracy: Our Political Vocabulary has No Room for Animals

CESRAN Int.21 February 20167 May 2016

This is part one of a three-part essay that proposes a way of thinking about democracy that’s seldom, if ever, used. Despite the popularity in other disciplines of inter-species thinking,...

CESRAN Blog China and Neighbourhood Michael Roberts

China: A Weird Beast

CESRAN Int.22 September 2015

In the light of all the controversy over whether the Chinese economy was about to collapse or suffer such a ‘hard landing’ that it would spill over into causing a...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 3

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

“Consumption Democracy” Consumption values are at the core of contemporary American culture. The mass media, businesses and politicians equate such values with freedom and democracy. The social contract as the...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 2

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy. Conservatives attribute the rising public debt to government spending on costly entitlement and social programs. They conclude that deficit financing for entitlement and social programs...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 1

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure....