tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post1381373843917999632..comments2023-12-23T02:10:09.875-05:00Comments on howl at pluto: Multipolarity and normative convergenceLFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-86400126182555509682011-01-25T12:52:34.152-05:002011-01-25T12:52:34.152-05:00Thanks; you raise some good points. Castaneda as I...Thanks; you raise some good points. Castaneda as I recall (it's been a while since I read the article) acknowledges that the U.S. has been inconsistent at best in its commitment to international institutions and human rights, but he focuses more of his attention on what he sees as the shortcomings of e.g. Brazil and South Africa in these respects. I think he is, as you suggest, too harsh on them, but I would have to go back to the article to get the details of his case. [Which I may do, in which case I will have a follow-up comment. Or not, depending on time etc.] <br /><br />The burden of my argument in the post was that, even accepting for the sake of argument Castaneda's take on the 'emerging powers', it still may make a lot of sense to bring them into the inner circles of 'global governance'.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-89089368436983404842011-01-25T11:02:22.871-05:002011-01-25T11:02:22.871-05:00I haven't read Jorge Castañeda's article, ...I haven't read Jorge Castañeda's article, but I'm not sure he is right. Because, while China obviously is a different case, and to some extent India too, it doesn't seam right to me to say that Brazil and South Africa are any less committed to human rights and democracy than the countries currently dominating the "global governance". To what extent are these two countries less democratic, and larger human rights abusers, than say, the USA? How committed is the USA to international criminal justice? Unlike Brazil and South Africa, the USA (like India and China) are not a party to the International Criminal Court. Trade liberalization is, especially after the current economic crisis, not seen as an uncontroversially good thing by everyone. And we have seen what abandoning "noninterference in internal affairs" lead to in Iraq. Perhaps the notion is not so outworn after all.Norwegian Guynoreply@blogger.com