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Kriege in der Ukraine, Israel/Palästina, im Irak und in Syrien – die Lage um Europa herum ist so dramatisch und tödlich wie lange nicht mehr. Das führt nun auch in Deutschland zu ersten überfälligen Ansätzen einer Diskussion um die eigene außenpolitische Rolle. Was heißt Verantwortung übernehmen heute? Ein Plädoyer.
Schweden hat gewählt. Gravierender als der Regierungswechsel ist aber die Frage nach einem paradigmatischer Wandel in Skandinaviens politisch gewichtigstem Land: Welche Rolle soll der Staat spielen? Was kann dem Markt überlassen werden? Welche Rolle spielen die Rechtsradikalen? Im Zentrum der Diskussion: Bildungs- und Flüchtlingspolitik.
Rezension zu: Arno Gruen (2013): Dem Leben entfremdet. Warum wir wieder lernen müssen zu empfinden. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Ca. 19,95.
Wir verlieren den Sinn für mitmenschliche Gefühle mit gravierenden Konsequenzen für uns selbst, die Gesellschaft und die Politik. Das meint der Psychoanalytiker Arno Gruen in seinem neuen Buch „Dem Leben entfremdet“. Es ist ein eindrücklicher und lebensnaher Anstoß, über uns selbst und unser Verhalten im Alltag nachzudenken.
Introduction - Issue 7
(2014)
A recent trend in international development circles is "New Institutionalism". In a slogan, the idea is just that good institutions matter. The slogan itself is so innocuous as to be hardly worth comment. But the push to improve institutional quality has the potential to have a much less innocuous impact on aid efforts and other aspects of international development. This paper provides a critical introduction to some of the literature on institutional quality. It looks, in particular, at an argument for the conclusion that making aid conditional on good institutional quality will promote development by reducing poverty. This paper suggests that there is little theoretical or empirical evidence that this kind of conditionality is good for the poor.
Justice, not development : Sen and the hegemonic framework for ameliorating global inequality
(2014)
Starting from the merits of Sen's "Development as freedom", the article also explores its shortcomings. It argues that they are related to an uncritical adoption of the discourse of "development", which is the hegemonic framework for ameliorating global inequality today. This discourse implies certain limitations of thought and action, and the article points out three areas where urgent questions of global justice have been largely ignored by development theory and policy as a consequence. Struggles for justice on a global scale, this is the conclusion, should not take the detour of "development".
The debate about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015, is moving very quickly. Weighing in on this debate, we argue that if the SDGs are to be as effective as they can realistically be, concrete responsibilities must be assigned to specific competent actors, measurement methods involved in development targets must not be allowed to be changed midway, and the tracking of progress must be left to independent experts. New development goals should aim for inequality reduction, a more comprehensive view of poverty, and, most importantly, systemic reforms of global institutions. The world will not make decent progress against poverty until the most powerful agents accept real action commitments, not only in the marginal area of development assistance, but in all their policy and institutional design decisions, at both the domestic and especially the supranational level. We end with eight examples of institutional reform goals – ranging from deterring trade barriers to mitigating the effects of lost corporate tax revenues on poor populations – that should be included in the new list.
Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging democracies and focuses especially on the case of Brazil. The paper shows that – in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric – the "softening" of sovereignty, which means that emerging powers gain as well as lose certain aspects of sovereignty, has become the norm. The paper explores this softening of sovereignty from the perspective of global justice by assessing it on the basis of globalist, statist, and internationalist conceptions of global justice. We find that the emergent multipolarity contributes in various ways to the realization of the distinct socioeconomic and political criteria of these three conceptions of global justice. However, we also point out that the transformation of sovereignty generates particular problems for the realization of all three conceptions.