Introduction
Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies, open governments, and an open international system. Slaughter describes open as participatory type of networks, that are transparent with their actions, and that there is a sense of autonomy.
Assessment
The overall quality of Slaughter’s argument …show more content…
Her use of a rebuttal to acknowledge a potential counterargument provided strength to this sub claim as she assured that her transparency sub claim is not promoting that the abolishment of all secrecy in all government’s deliberations. For her civic participation sub claim, Slaughter acknowledges that in order to have an effective public feedback system, the commitment will require a regulatory and technological revolution. Slaughter provided sound evidence from history to modern day strengthening her open governance proposal. Her evidence of the open-source platform GitHub displays historical evidence that a government system can be successful to allow public contributions. She also acknowledges some technological constraints by stating that the United States should encourage integrated networks and work to ensure that interoperability ripens into community. In this section of her essay, the author has a governance gap. She discusses open governance and she highlights accountability by using bribery as evidence, however Slaughter fails in discussing the governance of law in the interconnected network environment. With over 70 countries participating in the Open Government Partnership, the author should elaborate on how principles are
Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies, open governments, and an open international system. Slaughter describes open as participatory type of networks, that are transparent with their actions, and that there is a sense of autonomy.
Assessment
The overall quality of Slaughter’s argument …show more content…
Her use of a rebuttal to acknowledge a potential counterargument provided strength to this sub claim as she assured that her transparency sub claim is not promoting that the abolishment of all secrecy in all government’s deliberations. For her civic participation sub claim, Slaughter acknowledges that in order to have an effective public feedback system, the commitment will require a regulatory and technological revolution. Slaughter provided sound evidence from history to modern day strengthening her open governance proposal. Her evidence of the open-source platform GitHub displays historical evidence that a government system can be successful to allow public contributions. She also acknowledges some technological constraints by stating that the United States should encourage integrated networks and work to ensure that interoperability ripens into community. In this section of her essay, the author has a governance gap. She discusses open governance and she highlights accountability by using bribery as evidence, however Slaughter fails in discussing the governance of law in the interconnected network environment. With over 70 countries participating in the Open Government Partnership, the author should elaborate on how principles are