Civil Disobedience in Global Perspective Decency and Dissent over Borders, Inequities, and Government Secrecy,Michael Allen

-About this book

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. This is the possibility of disobedience justified by appeal to standards of decency that are shared by peoples who do not otherwise share commitments to the same principles of justice, and whose societies are organized according to very different basic social institutions. Justified by appeal to shared decency standards, disobedience by diverse state and non-state actors indeed challenge injustices in the international system of states.

The book considers three case studies: disobedience by the undocumented, disobedient challenges to global economic inequities, and the disobedient disclosure of government secrets. It proposes a substantial analytical redefinition of civil disobedience in a global perspective, identifying the creation of global solidarity relations as its goal.

-Contents
1 Introduction: A Global Practice of Civil Disobedience……………                1
1.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………                   1
1.2 Decency as a Shared Standard of Global Justice………………….              2
1.3 Decency as Grounding a Global Practice
of Civil Disobedience ………………………………………………………                        5
1.4 The Approach …………………………………………………………………                 11
1.5 The Limits of Liberalism and the Positive Contribution
of Non-liberal Viewpoints ………………………………………………..                     14
1.6 Outline of Chapters………………………………………………………….               15
References …………………………………………………………………………….             17
2 Decency, the Right to Disobey, and Non-domination ………………           19
2.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………               19
2.2 Peoples and Decency……………………………………………………….              22
2.3 Decency as the Basis of Moral Considerability
for the Right to Disobey …………………………………………………..                     25
2.4 Decency, the Rule of Law, and Non-domination………………….              30
2.5 A Note on Democracy, Egalitarianism, and Hierarchy …………             32
2.6 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..                34
References …………………………………………………………………………….             34
3 Undocumented Disobedients as a Special Class
of Civil Disobedients……………………………………………………………..               37
3.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………                38
3.2 Undocumented Migration as a Special Case
of Non-citizen Civil Disobedience …………………………………….                     41
3.3 The Undocumented Are Not Refugees……………………………….              43
3.4 Are the Undocumented Civil Disobedients Proper?……………..             45
3.5 Why the Undocumented Have a Moral Right to Disobey:
Internal Domination and Persecution …………………………………                   49

3.6 The Plenary Powers Doctrine and Uptake for Dissent
and Contestation ……………………………………………………………..                    53
3.7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..                56
References …………………………………………………………………………….              57
4 Institutionalizing the Human Right of the Undocumented
to Be Domestic Political Participants……………………………………..              59
4.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………               59
4.2 Interdependency of Human Rights and Political Participation            62
4.3 The Insecurity of Rights, and Power-Asymmetries
Between Citizens and the Undocumented…………………………..                  63
4.4 The Urgent Human Right to Be a Political Participant,
Wherever One Is……………………………………………………………..                     66
4.5 Institutionally Embedding the Right to Be a Political
Participant, Wherever One Is…………………………………………….                   69
4.6 A Proposal for Transitory Hierarchical Mini-Publics …………..            74
4.7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..               78
References …………………………………………………………………………….            79
5 Unfair Terms of Global Cooperation and the Fair Equality
of Liberty Between Peoples……………………………………………………               81
5.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………                82
5.2 Civil Disobedience and Representation………………………………             87
5.3 Disobedience by Multinational Cosmopolitan Citizens
from Liberal-Democracies………………………………………………..                     89
5.4 Disobedience by Multinational Cosmopolitan Citizens
Without Egalitarianism …………………………………………………….                     92
5.5 Disobedience by Peoples of Different States ………………………            94
5.6 Ongoing Controversy over Global Inequities………………………             97
5.7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..                98
References …………………………………………………………………………….           101
6 Executive Prerogative and Disobedient Disclosure
of Government Secrets ………………………………………………………….           103
6.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………             103
6.2 Lockean Prerogative ………………………………………………………..            107
6.3 Reinterpreting Civil Disobedience as Disobedient Disclosure          110
6.4 Some Problems for the Reinterpretation …………………………….          112
6.5 Reclaiming the Recursive Reinterpretation…………………………           116
6.6 Transparency and Leniency………………………………………………            118

6.7 Extending the Analysis to Traditional-Hierarchical Societies .         122
6.8 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..             125
References …………………………………………………………………………….          126
7 Disobedience as an Expression of Global Solidarity
and Redefining Disobedience in a Global Perspective …………….           129
7.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………             129
7.2 A Global Civil Disobedience Practice and Global Solidarity ..           131
7.3 Redefining Civil Disobedience in a Global Perspective………..          134
7.4 The Addition to the Minimal List of Human
Rights in Law of Peoples of the Human Right
to Be a Political Participant, Wherever One Is …………………….                137
7.5 The Recognition and Acceptance Among
the International Community of the Entailments
of the Fair Value of Liberty Between Rich and Poor Peoples,
as Prescribed by the Law of Peoples…………………………………..               138
7.6 The Recognition and Acceptance Among the International
Community of the Entailments of Competing Valid Claims
Based on Decency and the Ends of Government Made
by Executives and Disclosers ……………………………………………                 139
7.7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..              141
References …………………………………………………………………………….          143

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Date de parution :27 mai 2019

Éditeur : Springer

Poids de l’article : 244 g

N.de pages : 144 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-9402417180

Dimensions : 15.6 x 0.84 x 23.39 cm

Langue : Anglais