Conflict in the 'South China Sea': Lessons from the Dene Peoples and the Arctic Conflict?
Conflict in the ‘South China Sea’: Lessons from the Dene Peoples and the Arctic Conflict? Originally published September 26, 2011, by the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (online April 1, 2014). [John Raulston Saul and Stephen Kakfwi spoke about “Aboriginal Sovereignty in the Arctic” on January 13, 2011, at the Munk School for Global […]
The End of War? Global Citizenship and Changes to Conflict
The End of War? Global Citizenship and Changes to Conflict Originally published December 11, 2011, by the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (online March 31, 2014). [In reading about global democracy and its prospects for peace I came to think about how societies have changed, in large part due to technologies relating to media, […]
Gaddafi and Libya – a case for just intervention?
Gaddafi and Libya – a case for just intervention? Originally published by openDemocracy, April 1, 2011. [This short essay was borne out of an urge to “speak out of” the expression of international democracy that I saw happening in how many people, around the world, were relating to Libyans and vice versa during their moment […]
Constitutional Legitimacy: an International Ill and Gap in the Literature?
Constitutional Legitimacy: an International Ill and Gap in the Literature? Originally published February 25, 2011, by the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (online April 1, 2014). [This short essay is now, thankfully, due for an update. Advances in the academic literature on constitutions and their democratic legitimacy but also the uptake of democratic innovations […]
Nation-state or country-state: how do we discuss belonging in an age of fluidity?
Nation-state or country-state: how do we discuss belonging in an age of fluidity? Originally published by openDemocracy, April 12, 2011. [I did not think this short essay would spark a debate, but it did. See Michael Gardiner’s counter-argument here. I wrote the essay in a worry over the homogenizing effect of “nationalism”, particularly so as […]
Suppressed Democracy in China: Theoretical Rationalisation using a Cosmopolitan Methodology
Surpressed Democracy in China: Theoretical Rationalisation using a Cosmopolitan Methodology Originally published February 9, 2011, by the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (online April 1, 2014). [How red-cheeked one can get running into a short, brash, essay written by their younger self. Nearly ten years have passed since this small push in a magazine […]
As Berlusconi exits, is democratic reform the next real step for Europe?
As Berlusconi exits, is democratic reform the next real step for Europe? Originally published by The Conversation, November 11, 2011. [The seed for TaxTrack—an idea that would be published years later, in a different forum, and with Australia in mind (but it can be applied in other contexts, too)— is found in this short essay. Having […]
Competitive Regulation: Stepping Outside the Public/Private Policy Debate
Competitive Regulation: Stepping Outside the Public/Private Policy Debate Originally published August 17, 2011, by the Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (online March 31, 2014). [The spark for this short essay came from reading into two discrete sets of literature: that on non-violent democracy and the other on harmless democracy. To be fair, it’s really […]
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