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Public And Private Authority In A Global Setting: The Example Of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Matthias Goldmann
Public And Private Authority In A Global Setting: The Example Of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, Matthias Goldmann
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article argues that the public-private distinction is essential for safeguarding individual autonomy and democracy. As the article shows at the example of sovereign debt restructuring, global governance has blurred the distinction between public and private actors, instruments, and processes, and this causes immediate risks for human rights and democracy. This raises the question how the public-private distinction can be maintained under the structural conditions of global governance. For that purpose, the article ventures to propose a definition of publicness for global governance inspired by discourse theory. It argues that whenever a community, defined by the prevalence of communicative action, …