From the Vault: War and Global Democratic Politics
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2024-25 season.
Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts on themes relating to global democracratic politics, international politics and the problems facing the world today:
- In the Autumn, we ran a series of posts about the war in Ukraine, “Reflections on Ukraine“, featuring academics from Ukraine and across the world. The series was drawn from a conference and subsequent special issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica which was organized by Aaron James Wendland.
- We also featured – not unsurprisingly – several posts about the re-election of Donald Trump and the (global) implications of his campaign and second presidency. In a fascinating guest post, Mario J Cunningham discusses the Trump campaign’s promise of Mass Deportations and the “migrant crime” rhetoric which characterizes many right-wing populist movements today.
- In another guest post, Zsolt Kapelner discusses “Flooding the Zone”, a populist strategy championed by folks like Steve Bannon. He offers an incisive analysis of the harms of this strategy and issues some useful lessons for democracies elsewhere.
- Pierre-Etienne Vandamme looks to other countries, France and South Korea, and considers the importance of parliaments in resisting authoritarian executives.
- To what extent can children be political agents in democratic systems? In our ongoing collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Tim Fowler discusses his paper on the ethics of child protests.
- In our Beyond the Ivory Tower interview with Toby Buckle, we discussed how his interest in US politics partially spurred him on to start his wildly successful Political Philosophy podcast, and how philosophers of the past can help us understand the “present moment” better.
- Finally, a different issue for global politics and global ethics: What do we actually mean when we talk about mass incarceration? In another great post in our collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vincent Chiao asks: what is mass about mass incarceration, and why does it matter?
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2025-26 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
