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The Conference on the Future of Europe as a chance for democratic catching up? Towards a citizen-centred perspective on constitutional renewal in the European Union 欧洲未来会议是民主赶超的机会吗?从公民为中心的角度看待欧洲联盟的宪法更新
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000199
Sandra Seubert
The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) was the first initiative to include citizens in deliberations about the future of European democracy since the failed Constitutional Convention of 2002/03. Although embedded within broader trends to involve ordinary citizens in the political process, it is of specific relevance in the European context because it raises expectations of democratic catching up and relates to ongoing discussions and struggles about the constitutional character of the European Union. This article argues for a citizen-centred perspective on constitutional renewal in the European Union that places European citizens as constituent subjects at centre stage. It outlines how making the European Union accessible as a political arena allows citizens to regain control over developments that have evolved behind people’s backs. It concludes that deliberative tools of citizen participation should be used to pave the way for a wider reorganization of public authority and a renewal of the European Union’s constitutional basis.
欧洲未来会议(CoFoE)是自2002/03年失败的制宪会议(Constitutional Convention)以来,第一个让公民参与讨论欧洲民主未来的倡议。尽管这是普通公民参与政治进程的更广泛趋势的一部分,但它在欧洲背景下具有特殊的相关性,因为它提高了对民主追赶的期望,并与正在进行的关于欧盟宪法性质的讨论和斗争有关。本文主张以公民为中心的视角来看待欧盟的宪法更新,将欧洲公民作为构成主体置于中心位置。它概述了如何使欧盟成为一个政治舞台,使公民能够重新控制在人们背后演变的事态发展。报告的结论是,应当利用公民参与的审议工具为更广泛地改组公共权力和更新欧洲联盟的宪法基础铺平道路。
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A constitution for the ocean? An agora on ocean governance 海洋宪法?关于海洋治理的集会
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000138
Jonathan Havercroft, Alice Kloker
This introduction briefly discusses the global constitutional issues raised by ocean governance and introduces the three pieces from our Agora contributors.
本引言简要讨论了海洋治理提出的全球宪法问题,并介绍了Agora贡献者的三篇文章。
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Moving ‘red lines’: The Russian–Ukrainian war and the pragmatic (mis-)use of international law 移动的“红线”:俄乌战争和国际法的务实(错误)使用
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000175
F. dos Reis, J. Grzybowski
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has widely been seen as a failure of the international legal order, which could neither stop Russia from launching a war of aggression, nor prevent the perpetration of international crimes. In such a reading, great power politics have (once again) trumped international law. We argue instead that international law plays a crucial part in the conflict by providing a semantic infrastructure, which the opposing parties use to justify their actions, try to re-draw limits of permissible action and negotiate changing ‘red lines’ with the enemy. Drawing on the notion of lawfare, we show how the pragmatic (mis-)use of international law flexibly delineates boundaries and stabilizes expectations between adversaries even as they are contested in the current war. We focus on claims about self-determination and self-defence to justify the use of force; categorizations of combatants; and weapons transfers and the status of third states. That international law can be violated or reinterpreted to breaking point does not make it irrelevant. To the contrary, it recalls its important role as a language of conflict and compromise, beyond strictly legalist as well as dismissive realist views.
人们普遍认为,俄罗斯入侵乌克兰是国际法律秩序的失败,国际法律秩序既不能阻止俄罗斯发动侵略战争,也不能阻止国际罪行的发生。在这样的解读中,大国政治(再次)凌驾于国际法之上。相反,我们认为,国际法在冲突中发挥着至关重要的作用,因为它提供了一个语义基础设施,对立双方用它来为自己的行动辩护,试图重新划定允许行动的界限,并与敌人谈判改变“红线”。根据法律战的概念,我们展示了国际法的实际(错误)使用如何灵活地划定边界,并稳定对手之间的期望,即使他们在当前的战争中存在争议。我们侧重于关于自决和自卫的主张,以证明使用武力的正当性;战斗人员的分类;以及武器转让和第三国地位。国际法可以被违反或重新解释到崩溃的地步,但这并不意味着它无关紧要。相反,它回顾了它作为冲突和妥协语言的重要作用,超越了严格的法律主义和轻蔑的现实主义观点。
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Reflections on international ocean science and ocean governance: Can our global structures rise to the occasion? 对国际海洋科学和海洋治理的思考:我们的全球结构能否应付自如?
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000163
K. Hill
There is increasing awareness that the ocean touches all aspects of our lives and that a healthy ocean is central to a healthy planet and sustainable future. The ocean is a highly connected system and ocean science is characterized by voluntary international collaboration supported by an enthusiastic and engaged community. Increasingly, it is being recognized that international structures and instruments need to be stronger and more holistic than the current arrangements. This article outlines some perspectives on this, drawing on experience in ocean science and scientists at national, international and intergovernmental levels.
人们越来越意识到,海洋涉及我们生活的方方面面,健康的海洋是健康地球和可持续未来的核心。海洋是一个高度互联的系统,海洋科学的特点是由热情和参与的社区支持的自愿国际合作。人们越来越认识到,国际结构和文书需要比目前的安排更加强大和全面。本文借鉴了国家、国际和政府间海洋科学和科学家的经验,概述了对此的一些看法。
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Separation of powers in a globalized democratic society: Theorizing the human rights treaty organs’ interactions with various state organs 全球化民主社会中的权力分立:人权条约机构与各国家机关互动的理论化
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000114
Hinako Takata
As part of their continuous effort to enhance the effectiveness and democratic legitimacy of human rights treaties, human rights treaty organs have increasingly fostered a direct relationship with various state organs, thereby penetrating the ‘states’ that traditionally have been treated as monolithic legal entities. Treaty organs review the decision-making process of each type of state organ – courts, parliaments and administrative organs – and make remedial orders that are substantially addressed to specific state organs. Such phenomena go hand in hand with the relativization of the distinction between the legal spheres in which human rights treaty organs and state organs operate. This is the first study to address such phenomena as a totality. It constructs the ‘separation of powers in a globalized democratic society’ theory, thereby proposing how each type of state organ and the treaty organs should interact under human rights treaties. Its findings contribute, first, to the harmonious achievement of the effectiveness and democratic legitimacy of human rights treaties; second, to the reform of the classical paradigm of international law, in which monolithic states are the only relevant legal entities; and third, to the long-standing debates on the relationship between international and national laws from a new angle.
作为不断努力提高人权条约的有效性和民主合法性的一部分,人权条约机构越来越多地与各种国家机关建立直接关系,从而渗透到传统上被视为单一法律实体的“国家”中。条约机构审查每一类国家机关- -法院、议会和行政机关- -的决策过程,并作出基本上针对具体国家机关的补救命令。这种现象与人权条约机构和国家机构运作的法律领域之间区别的相对化密切相关。这是第一次将这些现象作为一个整体来研究。构建了“全球化民主社会中的三权分立”理论,提出了各类国家机关与条约机关在人权条约下应如何互动。其调查结果首先有助于和谐地实现人权条约的有效性和民主合法性;第二,改革国际法的经典范式,在这种范式中,单一国家是唯一相关的法律实体;第三,对长期以来关于国际法与国内法关系的争论,从一个新的角度进行梳理。
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Ocean literacy for an Ocean constitution 海洋素养对海洋体质的影响
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1017/s204538172300014x
E. McKinley
Firmly cemented in history as a connector of people, a facilitator for trade and transport routes and a driver of culture and heritage, the ocean has directly influenced globalization, and humanity more generally, for generations. While the ocean was perhaps once viewed as infinite and insurmountable, globally our oceans, coasts and seas have experienced unprecedented change in recent decades with climate change, loss of biodiversity and overfishing among the challenges being addressed through contemporary ocean governance. Moreover, and crucially as we continue to strive for sustainable ocean futures, the global ocean is increasingly being recognized as a peopled space. This article explores the role of ocean literacy as we look towards achieving sustainable ocean futures.
海洋作为人类的纽带、贸易和运输路线的促进者以及文化和遗产的推动者,在历史上得到了牢固的巩固,几代人以来,海洋直接影响了全球化,更广泛地影响了人类。虽然海洋可能曾经被视为无限的、不可逾越的,但近几十年来,在全球范围内,我们的海洋、海岸和海洋经历了前所未有的变化,气候变化、生物多样性丧失和过度捕捞是当代海洋治理所面临的挑战之一。此外,至关重要的是,随着我们继续努力实现可持续的海洋未来,全球海洋越来越被认为是一个有人居住的空间。这篇文章探讨了海洋知识在我们实现可持续海洋未来的过程中的作用。
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, global justice and the environment 《联合国海洋法公约》、全球司法和环境
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000151
Chris Armstrong
The recent fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has sparked a good deal of reflection and retrospection. Looking back, it is clear that the Convention’s architects carefully navigated, and selectively absorbed, a number of competing visions of oceanic governance, from freedom to enclosure to visions of Global North–South equality. This made the Convention’s construction period a very drawn-out and painful one – longer than for any other international treaty in history – and while some hopes were realized, others were dashed. Forty years on, it is important not to let its current canonical status blind us to the fact that the Convention came close to being a failure, and that things could have gone differently at a number of critical junctures. Nor should it stop us asking whether UNCLOS is really fit for purpose today. In this article, I situate the Convention within wider developments in the global economy and the global environment, and consider the role it has played in promoting goals of global justice and environmental protection.
最近是《联合国海洋法公约》通过四十周年,这引发了许多反思和回顾。回顾过去,很明显,《公约》的缔造者们仔细地引导并有选择地吸收了从自由到圈地到全球南北平等的海洋治理的一些相互竞争的观点。这使得《公约》的建设时期非常漫长和痛苦- -比历史上任何其他国际条约都要长- -在一些希望实现的同时,另一些希望破灭了。40年过去了,重要的是不要让它目前的规范地位蒙蔽了我们的双眼,使我们看不到这样一个事实,即《公约》几乎是失败的,在一些关键时刻,事情本来可以有不同的发展。这也不应阻止我们质疑《联合国海洋法公约》是否真的适用于今天的目的。在本文中,我将《公约》置于全球经济和全球环境的更广泛发展中,并考虑它在促进全球正义和环境保护目标方面所发挥的作用。
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Between a republican and a Bengalee state: Confronting exclusionary constitutionalism in Bangladesh 在共和制与孟加拉国家之间:面对孟加拉的排他性宪政
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000084
M. Sayeed, Lima Aktar
The constitutional design of Bangladesh is characterized by an ambivalent choice: it aspires to establish a republican yet a Bengalee state by putting itself in the conflicting terrain within the demos–ethnos binary. This article aims to examine the implication of this problematic choice along all three axes of the constitution’s elemental parts: its identity, rights and structure. While the identity element of the Bangladesh Constitution embodies the ethno-nationalist vision of the Bengalee state that transforms demos into ethnos, its rights and structural aspects reflect its republican promise to transform ethnos into demos. Contemporary scholarship seeks to confront the exclusionary dimension of the ethno-nationalistic choice in Bangladesh but ends up accepting ethnos as a politically superior value. Such an approach brings us to the politics of difference and, with that, undermines the integrationist potential of the republican constitution. In response, this article defends the republican promise of the Bangladesh Constitution while arguing that what we need in Bangladesh is the ‘de-ethnicization’ of the republic, one that can be achieved by transforming ethnos into demos and not the other way around.
孟加拉国的宪法设计的特点是一个矛盾的选择:它渴望建立一个共和国家,但又建立一个孟加拉国家,把自己置于民主-民族二元对立的冲突地带。本文旨在沿着宪法基本部分的所有三个轴:其身份,权利和结构来研究这一有问题的选择的含义。虽然孟加拉宪法的身份元素体现了孟加拉国家的民族主义愿景,将民众转变为民族,但其权利和结构方面反映了其将民族转变为民众的共和承诺。当代学者试图面对孟加拉国民族主义选择的排他性维度,但最终接受民族作为一种政治上优越的价值。这种做法将我们带到了差异政治,从而破坏了共和宪法的一体化潜力。作为回应,本文捍卫孟加拉宪法对共和的承诺,同时认为孟加拉需要的是共和国的“去族群化”,这可以通过将族群转化为民众来实现,而不是反过来。
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Models of EU Constitutional Reform: What do we learn from the Conference on the Future of Europe? 欧盟宪法改革模式:我们从欧洲未来会议中学到了什么?
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000102
B. Crum
Constitutional reform in the European Union suffers from a post-functionalist dilemma: the options that are politically viable are not democratically legitimate and the options that are democratically legitimate are not politically viable. Against the background of the recent Conference on the Future of Europe and the involvement of transnational European Citizens’ Panels, this article asks whether there is any prospect of overcoming this dilemma and organizing fundamental reform of EU institutions that is both normatively legitimate and politically viable. For this, it examines four models of EU treaty reform and the way these have figured in actual EU reform processes: Intergovernmental Conference, European Convention, informal intergovernmentalism and a Citizens Convention. The article concludes that, as long as the European Union is best characterized as a ‘demoi-cracy’ in which political deliberation takes place primarily in national public spheres, the Intergovernmental Conference remains its main and inevitable forum for constitutional reform. Hence, alternative models of EU constitutional reform should be evaluated not so much on the basis of their potential to substitute the IGC but rather on their ability to catalyse the process and to pre-commit the member state governments.
欧盟的宪法改革陷入了后功能主义的困境:政治上可行的选择在民主上不合法,而民主上合法的选择在政治上不可行。在最近的欧洲未来会议和跨国欧洲公民小组参与的背景下,本文提出了一个问题,即是否有可能克服这一困境,并对欧盟机构进行规范上合法、政治上可行的根本性改革。为此,本文考察了欧盟条约改革的四种模式,以及这些模式在实际欧盟改革进程中的作用:政府间会议、欧洲公约、非正式政府间主义和公民公约。文章的结论是,只要欧盟的最佳特征是“民主”,其中政治审议主要在国家公共领域进行,政府间会议仍然是其宪法改革的主要和不可避免的论坛。因此,评估欧盟宪法改革的其他模式,不应过多地基于它们取代政府间委员会的潜力,而应基于它们催化这一进程和让成员国政府提前做出承诺的能力。
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Looking beyond the constituent power theory: The theory of equitable elite bargaining 超越构成权力理论:公平精英议价理论
Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI: 10.1017/s2045381723000096
Amal Sethi
The constituent power theory, which served critical functions for several years, has outlived its utility as the preeminent yardstick to measure the normative legitimacy of a constitution. As the theory stands, it cannot apply on its own terms to most instances of modern constitution-making. At the same time, it is highly susceptible to being used to legitimize authoritarian outcomes. The scholarly literature that attempts to reimagine or expand the theory is scant and unable to overcome its problems. In response, this article develops an alternative standard: the theory of equitable elite bargaining. This theory provides that a constitution is normatively legitimate if it is the product of an equitable bargain between elites from most major political groups in society at the moment of constitution-making. The theory of equitable elite bargaining is applicable to the realities of modern constitution-making and makes it more difficult to legitimize authoritarian constitutions. Further, both representation-based and consequentialist arguments can justify a constitution drafted in accordance with the theory as normatively legitimate. The theory imposes a standard that can result in arduous constitution-making processes and moderated constitutional content. Additionally, its focus on elites poses challenging questions. However, this article will argue that the net benefits of this theory warrant its consideration as a new standard to assess normative constitutional legitimacy.
立宪权力理论在过去几年中发挥了重要作用,但作为衡量宪法规范性合法性的卓越标准,它已经失去了效用。按照该理论的立场,它不能以自己的方式适用于大多数现代制宪实例。与此同时,它很容易被用来使专制结果合法化。试图重新想象或扩展这一理论的学术文献很少,也无法克服它的问题。对此,本文提出了另一种标准:公平精英议价理论。这一理论认为,如果一部宪法是社会上大多数主要政治团体的精英在制宪时公平交易的产物,那么它在规范上是合法的。公平精英议价理论适用于现代制宪现实,使专制宪法难以合法化。此外,基于代表性和结果主义的论点都可以证明根据该理论起草的宪法在规范上是合法的。该理论强加了一种标准,可能导致艰巨的制宪过程和节制的宪法内容。此外,它对精英的关注带来了具有挑战性的问题。然而,本文将认为,这一理论的净收益值得将其作为评估规范性宪法合法性的新标准。
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