How Democracy Survives: Day 3 Panel Discussion on Cosmopolitan Democracy & UN Reform

From October 28-30, 2020, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a virtual symposium titled "How Democracy Survives: The Crises of the Nation State." The symposium featured leading scholars and activists from around the world, and explored how democratic values and institutions can evolve and adapt to the growing challenges that are now destabilizing democratic nation states, such as climate change, resurgent nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, human rights abuses, and deepening levels of economic inequality.

This panel discussion, titled "Cosmopolitan Democracy & UN Reform," featured Joseph Preston Baratta (Worcester State University), Andreas Bummel (Democracy Without Borders), and S.M. Sharei (Center for UN Constitutional Research). The panel was moderated by Augusto Lopez-Claros (Global Governance Forum).