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What Cosmopolitans Can Learn From Classical Realists
Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.William Scheuerman is professor of political science at Indiana University at Bloomington. His primary research interests include modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, and normative international theory. In addition to publishing a variety of articles in professional journals, Scheuerman is author of Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Johns Hopkins, 2008); Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law (Routledge, 2008); and Hans J. Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond (Polity Press, 2009). Scheuerman has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota as well as the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. in Philosophy at Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. He is co-director of an annual international conference for critical theorists held in Prague.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent Web page, streaming video, event photos, working pape
Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond
This paper traces the substantive overlap, or âhidden dialogue,â between Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau in their observations about American liberalism and American foreign policy. A proper understanding of that overlap is indispensable if we are to make sense of Morgenthauâs idiosyncratic brand of Realism since Morgenthau unfortunately reproduces many weaknesses in Schmittâs arguments when he borrows from Schmittâs reflections. Given the recent revival of utopian models of transnational political and legal order, and the resurgence of Realist theory, this paper advocates meeting Morgenthauâs intellectual challenge despite his Schmittian intellectual baggage
Decisionism and Legal Indeterminacy: The Case of Carl Schmitt
Also CSST Working Paper #116.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51307/1/543.pd
Entre o radicalismo e a resignação: teoria democråtica em Direito e democracia, de Habermas
Resumo
No artigo, William Scheuerman examina a grande contribuição de Habermas Ă teoria democrĂĄtica, o livro publicado no Brasil como Direito e democracia. Ele sinaliza a virada ârealistaâ e conservadora da obra, que nega o compromisso democrĂĄtico radical que marcava seu pensamento anterior. Em particular, Habermas incorpora a sociologia polĂtica de Bernhard Peters. Com isso, a distinção crĂtica entre pĂșblicos fortes e pĂșblicos fracos, que Habermas busca trazer da leitura de Nancy Fraser sobre o conceito de esfera pĂșblica, une-se Ă ideia de uma distinção funcional do sistema polĂtico, em que o centro deve tomar as decisĂ”es e a influĂȘncia da sociedade civil Ă© sempre indireta e mediada.
Palavras-chave: democracia deliberativa, sistema polĂtico, Habermas, Bernhard Peters
Abstract
In this article, William Scheuerman examines Habermasâs greatest contribution to democratic theory, the book published in English as Between facts and norms. It signals a ârealisticâ and conservative turn in his work, which denies the radical democratic commitment that marked his previous thought. In particular, Habermas incorporates Bernhard Petersâs political sociology. Thus, the critical distinction between strong and weak public audiences, which Habermas brings from Nancy Fraserâs reading on the concept of public sphere, joins the idea of a functional distinction of the political system, in which the center must make decisions. The influence of civil society is, in this case, always indirect and mediated.
Keywords: deliberative democracy, political system, Habermas, Bernhard Peter
Governing terrorism through risk: Taking precautions, (un)knowing the future
The events of 9/11 appeared to make good on Ulrich Beck's claim that we are now living in a (global) risk society. Examining what it means to âgovern through riskâ, this article departs from Beck's thesis of risk society and its appropriation in security studies. Arguing that the risk society thesis problematically views risk within a macro-sociological narrative of modernity, this article shows, based on a Foucauldian account of governmentality, that governing terrorism through risk involves a permanent adjustment of traditional forms of risk management in light of the double infinity of catastrophic consequences and the incalculability of the risk of terrorism. Deploying the Foucauldian notion of âdispositifâ, this article explores precautionary risk and risk analysis as conceptual tools that can shed light on the heterogeneous practices that are defined as the âwar on terrorâ
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