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Millennium: Journal of International Studies | 2005

The Democratic Paradox and Cosmopolitan Democracy

Marc G. Doucet

Democracys narrative on the source of legitimate political power contains a fundamental paradox which surfaces most clearly whenever there is an attempt to inaugurate a new democratic order. The new order is meant to be founded upon the consent of an authority — the people — which can only exist as such after the order is created. This research note begins with an examination of how this paradox re-emerges with the attempt to theorise cosmopolitan democracy, and how it leads such a theorisation into a logical impasse. Rather than seeking a way out of this impasse however, the second half of this note explores how the paradox may in fact be seen as leaving an irresolvable tension within the modern democratic imaginary which may lend itself to the project of theorising forms of post-national democracy.


Global Society | 2005

Child's play: The political imaginary of international relations and contemporary popular children's films

Marc G. Doucet

Many scholars in International Relations (IR) have drawn from popular films to examine various problématiques that have informed the disciplines main theorisations. As Cynthia Weber remarks, popular films are powerful because they engage in the very ‘serious political work’ of mythologising the ‘truths’ and ‘realities’ which provide the foundation for many of IRs main theoretical envisionings of our world. To date, however, childrens films have received very little attention. For the purpose of this paper, three have been isolated: Toy Story (1995), A Bugs Life (1998) and Rescue Heroes: The Movie (2003). Childrens films, it can be argued, help to craft and restore certain perspectives for each new generation of young minds during the crucial years when the world is being textualised for the first time. The objective of this paper, therefore, is to read these films as working towards producing and sustaining the power/knowledge that seeks to defend contemporary forms of world order while concurrently extending and disseminating the rule of these forms of world order through the medium of childrens popular cinema. 1. This paper stems from a series of questions posed to me by my two oldest sons, Alexandre and Nicolas. Their questions were prompted by their recent awakening to various dimensions of our contemporary political imaginary and the massive violence it can tolerate. Making sense of this world in terms other than those presented to them in the films they enjoy motivates my writing both here and elsewhere. I would like to thank my colleague and friend Miguel de Larrinaga for his insightful comments, most notably with regard to his layered reading of Toy Story. I would also like to express my appreciation to the participants of the Cultural Studies Group at Saint Marys University for their comments and suggestions when the first draft of this paper was presented to them on 26 March 2004. Finally, I am grateful to the reviewers of this journal for helping me clarify my analysis. As always, any errors or omissions remain mine.


Archive | 2013

Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State

Marc G. Doucet

The United Nations (UN) first celebrated “International Democracy Day” on September 15, 2008. Resolution A/RES/62/7, which inaugurated the annual event, had been adopted by the General Assembly the previous November without a vote, but 2008 was chosen in order to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first International Conference on New or Restored Democracies held in Manila in June 1988. While general references to democracy have underpinned many of the UN’s ideals since its founding, the conference and the resolution can be seen as spanning the period from the initial introduction to the ongoing debates on “democracy” in the world body.1 The resolution is illustrative of important elements of these debates and what is brought into motion when democracy enters the international realm. On the one hand, it is indicative of democracy’s post-Cold War global conquest. In formal and practical terms, democracy is now widely held as the only political regime with universal appeal, a point which is reaffirmed by the resolution itself when it states that “democracy is a universal value based on the freely expressed will of peoples to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural systems and their full participation in all aspects of their lives” (A/RES/62/7). In support of this universal value, the UN has in recent decades increasingly engaged in a host of more direct “democracy promotion” initiatives, such as organizing and monitoring elections and assisting democratization efforts through the UN Democracy Fund, established in 2005.


Canadian Journal of Political Science | 2007

A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State

Marc G. Doucet

A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State , Pierre Manent, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 216. Pierre Manent begins his book with a quotation taken from Paul Claudels Poetics , which poses the questions, “Where am I? What time is it?” and adds “these are the inexhaustible questions we ceaselessly ask the world” (1). In using the quotation, Manent sets the object of his book as an attempt to lay out the contemporary moment, to find our “bearings” as he states, in view of isolating the key elements that mark the internal and external developments of Western forms of representative democracy. Beyond drawing from the meaning taken from the quotation, one can only guess as to why Manent selected this particular passage to open his book. However, the choice is highly telling of the assessment that the book offers to its readers of the Wests current political predicament.


Security Dialogue | 2008

Sovereign Power and the Biopolitics of Human Security

Miguel de Larrinaga; Marc G. Doucet


Archive | 2010

Security and global governmentality : globalization, governance and the state

Miguel de Larrinaga; Marc G. Doucet


Contemporary Political Theory | 2005

Territoriality and the Democratic Paradox: the Hemispheric Social Alliance and Its Alternatives for the Americas

Marc G. Doucet


Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding | 2016

Global Assemblages of Security Governance and Contemporary International Intervention

Marc G. Doucet


Millennium: Journal of International Studies | 1999

Standing Nowhere(?): Navigating the Third Route on the Question of Foundation in International Theory

Marc G. Doucet


Canadian Journal of Political Science | 2004

L'organisation mondiale du commerce : où s'en va la mondialisation?

Marc G. Doucet

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