Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Buckinx Barbara
    Global actors and public power
    in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , Volume 15, Issue 5, 2012 ,  2012 ,  535-551
    Abstract Prominent recent scholarship in global political justice has focused on creating conceptual space for international NGOs – and sometimes also corporations and states – as fully-fledged participants in global governance. While acknowledging the achievements of international non-state actors, I argue that core global governance tasks – of global distribution, regulation or administration – should not be assigned to them. Drawing from neo-republican theory, I contend that such actors fall short of the formal criteria that are necessary for constituting a global public actor, because they do not have a global function and orientation. The distinction between public and private actors matters, since it conditions our expectations for them: both categories of actors are asked to avoid dominating individuals, but public actors must, in addition, protect individuals from third-party domination.
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