300129 Political Development: Citizenship in Comparative and Global Perspective (S) (SoSe 2005)

The era of globalization has raised many issues, such as the withering away of the nation-state and alternative or complementary forms of governance beyond the borders of sovereign states. There has been lots of discussion about new and changing forms of governance, such as global governance and private-public partnerships. For example, issues of global governance of trade are increasingly and visibly discussed at the meetings of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet citizens have responded. Some activists in the "North", "East" and "South" have taken to the streets, as evidenced in Seattle 1999 and the following years. In many welfare states more and more services are privatized or jointly provided by public and private agencies in Europe and North America. And the third wave of democratization since the late 1980s has also swept across Latin America, Africa and Asia. At the center of all stands the changing relationship between citizens and states. In order to understand the direction of democracy, welfare states, pluralism and the location of governance, citizen-state relations - in short, citizenship - is the fundamental linchpin. All the changes crystallize in citizenship. In the first part of this seminar we trace the concept of citizenship, in the second part we analyze nationally and historically specific variations across the globe, and in the third part we turn our attention to emergent forms of citizenship, such as dual citizenship and global citizenship.

Bibliography

T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Douglas Klusmeyer (eds.), 2001: Citizenship Today. Global Perspectives and Practices. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.