GLOBAL DEMOCRACY

• Hayward Alker <alker@rcf-fs.usc.edu>, Univ. of Southern California
• Chris Chase-Dunn <christopher.chase-dunn@ucr.edu>, UC/Riverside Chase-Dunn
• Vicki Clarke <clarkeghana@hotmail.com>, Northern Illinois University
• Barry Gills <B.K.Gills@newcastle.ac.uk>, Univ. of Newcastle, UK
• Dong-Sook Gills, <Dong-Sook.Gills@sunderland.ac.uk>, Sunderland University, UK
• Roger Hamburg <hamburgr@iusb.edu>, Lake Michigan College, IL
• Imtiaz Hussain <imtiaz.hussain@uia.mx>, Universidad IberoAmericana,
• Doug Kellner <kellner@ucla.edu>, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
• Zdravko Mlinar <zdravko.mlinar@Uni-Lj.si>, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Ronaldo Munck <r.p.munck@liverpool.ac.uk>, Liverpool University, UK; Globalisation and Democracy
• Craig N. Murphy <cmurphy@wellesley.edu>, Wellesley College, President of the I.S.A.
• Fred Riggs <fredr@hawaii.edu>, Univ. of Hawaii, Mobility and Democracy
• Victor Sergeyev <V.Sergeyev@let.leidenuniv.nl>, Leiden University, Netherlands (visiting professor from Russia)
• Dimitris Stevis, <Dimitris@lamar.colostate.edu>, Colorado State Univ.
• Henry Teune <hteune@sas.upenn.edu>, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Other participants by e-mail:

• Chadwick Alger <alger.1@osu.edu>, Ohio State University
• Royce Ammon <RJAmmon@aol.com>, "communications and politics"
• Honor Fagan,<hfagan@eircom.net>, Natl. Univ. Ireland, Maynooth
• Myron Frankman, <myron.frankman@mcgill.ca>, McGill University, Canada
• Deane Neubauer <deane@hawaii.edu>, Univ. of Hawaii
• Mustapha Kamal Pasha, <mkpasha@aol.com>, American Univ.
• Leslie Sklair, <l.sklair@lse.ac.uk>, London School of Economics, UK
• Majid Tehranian <majid@hawaii.edu>, Univ. of Hawaii

1. Introductions and get acquainted -- participants briefly specify the focus of their interests and identify themselves

2. Adopt a plan for the workshop:

• Those who want to make presentations will be given a short time to do so -- then schedule presentations to be completed by lunch break
  
• Before lunch we will agree on an agenda of key topics to be discussed during the afternoon session

3. The presentations by participants

4. After lunch: discuss agenda topics in sequence, allotting time for each in advance, depending on how many topics there are and their relative importance. A copy of the prospectus posted will be distributed on paper to all participants. See: Workshop

Some preliminary suggestions for the agenda:

• What do we mean by Global Democacy -- how does it relate to the themes of globalization, and democratization and how they affect each other?
• Global forces (economic, political, informational, cultural) -- do they encourage democracy or authoritarianism, and in what relative strength? with what expected outcomes?
• States: how do global forces affect the political dynamics of states -- promoting despotism, inequality, tyranny and injustice, or democracy, equality, freedom, and justice? What are the mechanisms, levers, of change?
• International organizations (governmental and non-governmental) -- how are they organized internally, and what is their impact externally? How important are they on the world scene?
• Impersonal or unorganized factors -- e.g. the market for goods, capital and money, mobility of persons (including refugees, migrants, "nomads", tourists), global communications and information systems, technology -- what influence do they have on political dynamics, democratic or anti-democratic?
• Summation? What conclusions for future research, publication and action can we draw from our discussions? How can we remain in touch with each other and others, especially those in the Globalization and Democracy (DEMOGLO) project? and the GRANDD proposal by M. Tehranian - a memo on this idea will be added. Follow up meetings in Hong Kong, Hawaii, UK, Indonesia, Mexico, etc. -- what are the prospects and possibilities?

NOTE: I am preparing a short paper on the effects of global human mobility on democratic theory -- I believe we should not assume that "democracy" is a final product developed in the West for export to the rest of the world - rather, the processes of "democratization" involve not only the extension of existing practices but also, importantly, the evolution of these practices in the West and openness to influences from everywhere in the world.

Please share your ideas about the agenda and how we should proceed. We need to finalize our plans and share the information among participants in order to get a running start. Address questions and comments to Fred Riggs and/or Henry Teune