This paper examines the challenges that Indigenous peoples face when they use cultural rights arguments to influence the decision making of international organizations such as the United Nations, the WTO and NAFTA regulatory boards. The paper responds to the concerns that identity politics has...

We make rights claims for all kinds of reasons, under vastly different circumstances and in a host of distinctive contexts. And we do this all around the globe. But why do we make rights claims? What do we intend to do when we engage in this activity? And what is it that we actually do,...

Protagoras has been called been called by scholars the first democratic thinker. The evidence for this is based on his judgment, contained in his 'Great Speech' in Plato's dialog Protagoras, that the Athenians are wise for allowing all their citizens to make judgments about justice. While the...

Given the increasing acceleration of social life, some theorists detect a crisis of democracy. After all, democratic decisions take time. I engage Iris Young, Nadia Urbinati and Sheldon Wolin, who stand in for deliberative, representative and radical approaches to democracy. I argue that the...

Sheldon Wolin once suggested that the state, not democracy, is the guardian of the international order. That order views financial market stability as the sine qua non of nearly all aspects of international politics. No modern society, Wolin argued, has yet managed to democratize the state. As...

Architecture is combination of the two Greek words archē and technē. Archē connotes the practice of power, sovereignty, dominion, and command but also initiation and action. Technē refers to technical knowledge that can be systematized but also something that is contrived as a skill or a...

This paper aims to explain why candidate-centered electoral institutions that foster personalistic parties are sometimes chosen in new democracies. Personalistic parties, which are undisciplined and focused on delivering individual or local benefits, are believed to harm government...