International Relation and European-Asian studies

A Dialogic Approach to Intercultural Communication

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Cosmopolitan Liberalism

Tallinn 2015

Cosmopolitan Liberalism By political cosmopolitanism we mean the idea of overcoming the fragmentation of the world into an anarchy of states by constructing a global public order within which states are subsumed. The new liberal cosmopolitanism argues that this new global public order can and must be based upon liberal principles. Liberal cosmopolitanism in its current form is a radicalization of Anglo-American liberal internationalism. It shares a whole series of commitments with the latter: one humanity, liberal values and cognitive frameworks, individual liberal rights, liberal-democracy, the promotion of peace through international economic liberalism, the development of liberal universalist international law and institutions.
Liberal Cosmopolitanism differs from Liberal Internationalism in three key goals: * The subordination of the states to a global order of governance, protecting the liberal rights of individual citizens from state authorities, even through coercive action where necessary. * The transformation of state sovereignty from an absolute right into a licence extended to the state by the global community on the condition that the state behaves in an at least minimally liberal way towards its citizens. * The emergence of cosmopolitan citizens with cosmopolitan liberal rights, the emergence of a cosmopolitan civil society and institutional order of which state structures are simply subordinate parts and the ability of these global citizens to protect their rights through the cosmopolitan order, against, if necessary, recalcitrant states.

Jurgen Habermas
View of Communicative Action Habermas sees specialization as the key historical development, which leads to the alienating effects of modernity, which 'permeate and fragment everyday consciousness. From bases taken from Mead’s, Durkheim’s and Weber’s theories, Habermas develops his concept of communicative action: communicative action serves to transmit and renew cultural knowledge, in a process of achieving mutual understandings. It then coordinates action towards social integration and solidarity. Finally, communicative action is the process through which people form their identities.

Jurgen Habermas - View of Public Sphere The notion of the 'public sphere' began evolving during the Renaissance in Western Europe. Brought on partially by merchants' need for accurate information about distant markets as well as by the growth of democracy and individual liberty and popular sovereignty, the public sphere was a place between private individuals and government authorities in which people could meet and have critical debates about public matters.

How Social Media can help with applying the cosmopolitan liberalism concept? According to many academicians, researchers and practitioners, internet is a deliberative public sphere as the ideal for citizen participation in politics. In contrast to the mass media, the Internet is seen as a force for ‘radical democracy’. The Internet is seen as helping marginalized groups – those groups associated with discourses excluded from the mainstream public sphere – develop their own deliberative forums, link up, and subsequently contest dominant meanings and practices.

But – who’s controling Social Media?
Who owns the social media and the Internet? In his system, Habermas combines analytic philosophy, Marxism, pragmatism, psychoanalysis and developmental psychology (the release of Piaget and Kohlberg) in one of the original social theory, ambition and verve reminiscent of eminent classical sociologists like Durkheim, Weber, Mead and Parsons, which, incidentally, often refers. The basic theme of his philosophy revolves around the defense of the Enlightenment, with reason as a principle governing social relations at the helm. For this purpose, the detranscendenalization traditional philosophical and instance based on the theory of communicative action develops the concept of rationality communication.

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Central Asia background

E-democracy, social networking, cultural diplomacy
E-democracy - a form of government in which all-adult citizens are presumed to be eligible to participate equally in the proposal, development, and creation of laws thought cyber platforms. Social networking -is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. Cultural diplomacy -a type of public diplomacy and soft power that includes the exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding. In regards of the improving technological aspects of the modern era, governments should accept the power of social media in order to communicate in the micro level alongside with their inter state relations.

Literrature: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2346.00091/abstract http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/
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