September 2023: ECPR General Conference at Charles University, Prague (4–8 September)
The Kantian Political Thought Standing Group will endorse a Section on ‘Kant on Global Politics’.
This Section aims to cover the broad topic of the new global order emerging before our eyes. What are its theoretical assumptions? What elements should be taken into account?
From the Abstract: The global order as we knew it no longer exists in principle. For one reason, traditionally global order is conceived territorially, but an important aspect of the current globalization process is precisely deterritorialization. (E.g., Ruggie 1993 and Scholte 2000.)
But other features, too, seem to challenge our traditional views of global politics: increased social interconnectedness, increased speed of social interactions, the likelihood that similarly significant changes will emerge for some time to come, and that these will be complex changes. (For a general overview, see Scheuerman 2018.) What will the new order be, what principles of its construction should we consider, and what factors will determine the future shape of global relations?
Further details about the Section can be found here.
August 2022: ECPR General Conference at the University of Innsbruck (22–26 August)
The Kantian Political Thought Standing Group endorsed a Section on ‘Kant and Future Politics’.
From the abstract: It seems clear that humanity will have a future only if some significant changes in our current practices are adopted. Whether we are talking about consumption, corporate responsibility, the use of social media, our relation to the environment and its crises leading to migration and displacement, social justice, national and international conflict resolution, political institutions or our own views of ourselves as historical and moral agents, we need to reconceptualise our practices and find concrete ways of applying such renewed perspectives to our world.
Kant’s philosophy is particularly apposite in this context, not only given its significant legacy, including numerous recent texts which approach such difficult issues against the background of Kant’s thought; in addition, Kant’s texts on their own continue to yield new useful insights for our theoretical attempts to tackle currently urgent problems, and recent exegetical efforts are evidence of the continued relevance of his work.
This section was designed to include panels and papers from academics from various relevant disciplines, who critically acknowledge the significance of Kant’s philosophy and the Kantian legacy, and who mobilise their normative potential for the articulation of novel ways of thinking about our predicaments and our future. Panels and papers on meta-theoretical, normative and applied issue were invited for participation.
Further details of the section can be found here.
