Symposium: Envisioning a More Democratic Global System

The current issue of the Widener Law Review (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2007) includes the proceedings of a symposium on "Envisioning a More Democratic Global System," which took place at the Widener University School of Law in April 2006. Contents include:

• Andrew Strauss, Considering Global Democracy
• Richard Falk, What Comes After Westphalia: The Democratic Challenge
• Heraldo Muñoz, Democracy in the Americas
• Gregory H. Fox, Internationalizing National Politics: Lessons for International Organizations
• Daniele Archibugi, Can Democracy Be Exported?
• Kimon Valaskakis, The Perils of “Dumb” Democracy
• Robert C. Johansen, The E-Parliament: Global Governance to Serve the Human Interest
• Andrew Strauss, On the First Branch of Global Governance
• Chandra Muzaffar, Hegemony, Terrorism, and War—Is Democracy the Antidote?
• Thomas Franck, One Man One Vote or One Man One Goat: Reflections on Democracy in the Global Arena
• Heikki Patomäki, Rethinking Global Parliament: Beyond the Indeterminacy of International Law
• David Kennedy, Assessing the Proposal for a Global Parliament:A Skeptics View
• Upendra Baxi, Towards a General Assembly of Peoples:Notes for Conversation
• Zaid Ibrahim, America and the Future of Global Democracy