Transnational civil society and informal public spheres in the nuclear non-proliferation regime
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Scholars charting the emergence of transnational public spheres often focus on the socio-spatial sites that are generated by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in their interactions with the institutions of global governance. These sites can either reflect strong public spheres within the formal decision-making structures of international regimes, or segmented and general public spheres on their periphery. In practice, they all suffer key democratic deficiencies in either the ability to...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Norman, David | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-20T02:42:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-20T02:42:20Z | |
dc.identifier.citation | Norman, D.J. (2018) “Transnational civil society and informal public spheres in the nuclear non-proliferation regime” European Journal of International Relations | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1354-0661 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142751 | |
dc.description.abstract | Scholars charting the emergence of transnational public spheres often focus on the socio-spatial sites that are generated by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in their interactions with the institutions of global governance. These sites can either reflect strong public spheres within the formal decision-making structures of international regimes, or segmented and general public spheres on their periphery. In practice, they all suffer key democratic deficiencies in either the ability to communicatively generate public opinion or achieve collective will-formation. I argue that if CSOs can successfully weave together both general and segmented public spheres on the periphery of international regimes, their individual democratic deficiencies could be addressed. To demonstrate evidence of these interconnected ‘informal public spheres’ I turn to the nuclear non-proliferation regime where public deliberation has been largely invisible and ineffectual within the formal decision-making structures of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The emergence of a new CSO-led ‘humanitarian initiative’ on the periphery of the regime comprising multi-stakeholder initiatives in conjunction with CSO social forums, reflects the interconnection of segmented and general public spheres. This innovative initiative has effectively enhanced transnational public debate on disarmament, whilst gaining crucial political traction within the regime. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Grant Ref: ES/L013320/1) under the project ‘Nuclear Ethics and Global Security: Reforming the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime’ at the University of Birmingham, UK. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
dc.rights | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1354-0661/..."author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 20/04/18). | |
dc.source | European Journal of International Relations | |
dc.subject | Transnational Civil Society | |
dc.subject | Public Spheres | |
dc.subject | Democratic Deficit | |
dc.subject | Critical Theory | |
dc.subject | Global Governance | |
dc.subject | Nuclear Proliferation | |
dc.title | Transnational civil society and informal public spheres in the nuclear non-proliferation regime | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | accepted for publication | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-03-30 | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
local.publisher.url | http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejt | |
local.type.status | Accepted Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Norman, D., Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University | |
local.identifier.essn | 1460-3713 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1354066118774836 | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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