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The Challenge of Democracy
beyond Cultural Borders

Nadia Urbinati
Professor at Columbia University, USA



 

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Abstract
This paper discusses issues of democracy beyond state borders with particular attention to the problem of peace and the advancement of a peaceful coexistence among peoples and cultures. To make its case, it articulates democratic cosmopolitanism in a moral-procedural branch (Kantian model) and an ethico-ideological branch (Wilsonian model), the former as an expression of indirect politics or politics of judgment, and the latter as an expression of direct politics or politics of the will. It resorts to the former in order to argue for a process of economic and communicative inter-action among peoples and individuals as the means through which a moral sense of human value and the culture of rights can grow beyond borders in ways that are consistent with democratic principles.

 

Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism
March 4th/6th 2006 - Cairo, Egypt

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