The global system as presently structured relies on states to be intermediaries between citizens and the international system. This means that the planet's six billion citizens are not directly involved in creating international law, and the international order, likewise, does not for the most...

This article makes the theoretical case for a civil society initiated Global Peoples Assembly (GPA) that would be popularly elected by the global citizenry. The authors argue that if civil society organizations were able to agree on a framework for a GPA and to hold popular elections, the...

The meeting point of global Intellectual Property (IP) norms and local culture produces an unsettled process of glocalization. The global and the local might merge, but they often conflict, and their intersection then mirrors another clash, between trade and culture. This article argues that...