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‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee. (2016). ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’. In Recognition and Global Politics: Critical encounters between state and world. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784993337.003.0003

This chapter critically assesses the ability of Nancy Fraser’s status model of recognition to foster an international, or ‘cosmopolitan’, feminist theory of recognition. Fraser’s tripartite account of recognition, redistribution and political represe... Read More about ‘Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition’.

The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation? (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?. In The Institutionalisation of EU-US Relations: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transatlantic Trade and Data Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50221-2_4

This chapter explores the forms of governance that the EU–US PNR, TFTP, Privacy Shield and Umbrella Agreement have established in the transatlantic data space by looking at the relevant rules, procedures and institutions. It concludes that transatlan... Read More about The EU–US Data Privacy and Counterterrorism Agreements: What Lessons for Transatlantic Institutionalisation?.

State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social (2016)
Journal Article
Mandelbaum, M. (2016). State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social. Critical Studies on Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2016.1163921

Taking cue from Foucault’s Society Must be Defended and drawing on the Lacanian concept of fantasy this paper puts forwards an analytic of in/security by focusing on the fantasy of congruency of state, nation and society. I argue that this ideal of c... Read More about State, Nation, Society: The Congruency Fantasy and the In/Security of the Body-National/Social.

Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics (2016)
Journal Article
Böker, M. (2016). Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics. Contemporary Political Theory, 16, 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2016.11

I contend that the popular ‘mini-publics’ approach to implementing deliberation in practice is unable to realize deliberative democracy in a way that fulfills the deliberative democratic standard of legitimacy. Deliberative democratic legitimacy requ... Read More about Justification, Critique and Deliberative Legitimacy: The Limits of Mini-Publics.

US Climate Change Policy (2016)
Book
(2016). US Climate Change Policy

The United States is often perceived as sceptical, if not hostile, to the need to address man-made climate change. US government policy has undoubtedly disappointed environmentalists and scientists who believe more concerted action is needed, but a c... Read More about US Climate Change Policy.