Call for Chapters: How Democracy Survives

Michael Holm Announcement
Location
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields
Diplomacy and International Relations, American History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Human Rights, Political Science

HOW DEMOCRACY SURVIVES will be a volume of interdisciplinary scholarly essays that will shed light on how democracy can meet the global challenges of our time. Among the questions we hope to explore: How can advocates of a free and open society cooperate on a global scale to maintain democracy in the face of such challenges as the climate emergency, mass migrations, the rise of anti-democratic nationalism, and transnational security threats? How will ethnically and religiously diverse nation states maintain democracy in an age of resurgent ethnic and religious strife? How can democratic governments respond to those aspects of economic globalization that increase economic inequality and social volatility? How might we address the “democratic deficit” in the United Nations and other international organizations founded in the 20th century? What is the continued role of human rights as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and how might they be better protected? What are the prospects for the growth of new democratic institutions that transcend the boundaries of the nation state in the 21st century? 

 

If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send your abstracts of 350-500 words to rsdeese@bu.edu by January 15, 2021. Please also include a shorter version of your C.V.

 

Upon review of abstracts, we will contact selected authors to invite submissions of completed essays. Final submissions of 6000-8000 words (including Chicago style endnotes) will be due no later than July 15, 2021.

 

EDITORS:
Richard Samuel Deese, Division of Social Sciences, Boston University

Michael Holm, Division of Social Sciences, Boston University

Contact Information

Sam Deese, Boston University, rsdeese@bu.edu

Michael Holm, Boston University, mholm@bu.edu

Contact Email
mholm@bu.edu