TNI's fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers seeking to undermine democracy today, and tell the stories of radical popular democratic alternatives emerging - Democracy is dead, long live democraciesHilary WainwrightDemocracy, power and sovereignty in today’s EuropeYanis VaroufakisA Global Post-Democratic OrderLeigh PhillipsEconomics as Challenging Expert Political PowerElaine CoburnTyranny of Global FinanceWalden BelloMulti-stakeholder A corporate push for a new form of global governanceHarris GleckmanCase Nutrition and food – how government for and of the people became government for and by the TNCsFlavio Luiz Schieck Valente“To change the heart and soul”: How elites contained the global climate justice movementHerbert DocenaPrecarity, Power and DemocracyTom GeorgeFreedom technologists and the future of global justiceJohn PostillThe open source city as the transnational democratic futureBernardo GutierrezPower in Radical PathwaysAshish Kothari and Pallav Das
Language
English
Pages
198
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
February 16, 2016
State of Power 2016: Democracy, power and resistance
TNI's fifth annual State of Power 2016 report explores the intersect of power and democracy. Featuring prominent activists and academics, its essays feature the long battle between economic power and popular democracy, expose the different powers seeking to undermine democracy today, and tell the stories of radical popular democratic alternatives emerging - Democracy is dead, long live democraciesHilary WainwrightDemocracy, power and sovereignty in today’s EuropeYanis VaroufakisA Global Post-Democratic OrderLeigh PhillipsEconomics as Challenging Expert Political PowerElaine CoburnTyranny of Global FinanceWalden BelloMulti-stakeholder A corporate push for a new form of global governanceHarris GleckmanCase Nutrition and food – how government for and of the people became government for and by the TNCsFlavio Luiz Schieck Valente“To change the heart and soul”: How elites contained the global climate justice movementHerbert DocenaPrecarity, Power and DemocracyTom GeorgeFreedom technologists and the future of global justiceJohn PostillThe open source city as the transnational democratic futureBernardo GutierrezPower in Radical PathwaysAshish Kothari and Pallav Das