CFP: “Democracy & Law” | Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

Demo­cracy and Law

Demo­cracy and law are cent­ral themes of global stud­ies. Nowadays inter­na­tional polit­ics seems to be inter­ceded via a mul­ti­tude of legal prac­tices and pro­cesses, con­sequently bring­ing the role of, and need for, inter­na­tional law into sharp relief. Yet par­tic­u­larly since the emer­gence of the ‘war on ter­ror’ many have ques­tioned the effic­acy of inter­na­tional law. No longer framed in terms of a West­phalian ‘law of nations’, inter­na­tional law is under­go­ing a series of fun­da­mental chal­lenges that are increas­ingly call­ing into ques­tion its status, effect­ive­ness and applic­a­tion. Extraordin­ary rendi­tion, the wide­spread use of tor­ture and the polit­ics of excep­tion in gen­eral high­light both its inef­fect­ive­ness and flex­ib­il­ity in equal meas­ure. Con­sequently, some cham­pion the strength­en­ing of cur­rent state-​centric insti­tu­tions and regimes to pro­tect human rights, while oth­ers argue that break­ing exist­ing reg­u­la­tions can be jus­ti­fied. Oth­ers still argue for rad­ic­ally dif­fer­ent (bottom-​up) approaches to inter­na­tional law and demo­cracy, tak­ing into account not only rela­tions between states but also rela­tions between individuals.

The journal seeks to invest­ig­ate these issues We invite ori­ginal con­tri­bu­tions in the fol­low­ing areas:

• The pur­pose and applic­a­tion of inter­na­tional law.
• The rela­tion­ship between demo­cracy, law and globalisation.
• The need for altern­at­ive con­cep­tu­al­isa­tions of demo­cracy and inter­na­tional law.
• The role of non-​state act­ors in facil­it­at­ing or res­ist­ing either inter­na­tional law and/​or democracy.
• The prob­lem­atic of human­it­arian inter­ven­tion and the aggress­ive facil­it­a­tion of demo­cratic norms.
• Can glob­al­isa­tion provide the means and incent­ive to provide a truly demo­cratic world order?

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