Contents -- Introduction -- I. From "Introducing Controversia" -- II. Article Selections for Discourse Debate and Democracy -- PART ONE: Argumentation, Debate, and Democracy -- The Argumentation Theorist in Deliberative Democracy -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I: The Idea of Deliberative Democracy -- II: The Influence of the Argumentation Theorist as Educator: Achieving Transfer -- III: The Status of the Argumentation Theorist: Expert Authority or Vicarious Participant? -- Democracy and Argumentation -- Abstract -- Argumentation in the Political Context of Democracy -- Developments Towards Democracy -- The Eastern European Syllogism -- Democracy as "Organised Uncertainty" -- The Modern Conception of Democracy -- The Classical Conception of Democracy -- Democracy as an Organisational System -- Participatory Democracy and Critical Discussion -- Higher Order Conditions for Critical Discussion -- The Role of Argumentation in Democratic Change -- The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity -- Abstract -- "Rational" Citizens and Their Political Realms -- Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge -- Phronesis and the Role of Rhetoric and Dialectic -- Practical Wisdom and Its Areas of Application -- Dialogue versus Deconstruction -- Critical Political Theory and the Rhetorical Phronimos -- Identity Construction and Political Wisdom -- Power and Force in Argumentation: A Dialogic Response -- Abstract -- PART I: Power and Force in Argumentation -- Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization and Public Debate Pedagogy in Southeast Europe* -- Abstract -- 'Balkanization' and Group Polarization -- Public Debate and Group Depolarization -- Closed Fist or Open Palm? -- PART TWO: Public Argument, Public Policy, and Democratization -- Manifest Destiny on a Global Scale: The U. S. War on Terrorism -- Abstract.

Revoking Individual Identity -- Revoking National Identity -- Revoking Religious Identity -- The Doctrine of Global Manifest Destiny -- NOTES -- Hypocrisy and Hatred -- Abstract -- Between the Arab Street and the Arab Basement: Dimensions of Civility &Civil Society in American Public Diplomacy -- Abstract -- Islamic Publics as the Object of American Foreign Policy -- Reclaiming Civility from within Civil Society -- Engaging Islamic Publics: American Public Diplomacy -- Miscommunication-The Distortion of Civility -- Moderates and Messengers: Separating Islamic publics -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- We'll Guarantee Freedom When We Can Afford It: The Free Market, the Russian Constitution, and the Rhetoric of Boris Yeltsin -- II. Viable Constitutionalism -- III. The Road to the Russian Constitution -- III. Yeltsin's "Democratic Coup" -- IV. Economics and the Russian Constitution -- WORKS CITED -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Clown Prince of Russia -- Abstract -- The Rise of the LDPR -- Russia at the Threshold -- Bakhtin's Carnival and the Clown Prince of Russia -- Free and Familiar Contact -- The Bodily Element -- The Clown and the Right to be "Other" in this World -- The Ethic of the Loophole -- Not as Much "For" as "Against" -- The Islamic Idiom and the Prospects for Arab World Deliberative Democracy: A Book Review Essay -- Abstract -- Can Genuine Deliberation Thrive in an Islamic Context? -- Must Grassroots Deliberation be Reassessed Given the Arab World Experience? -- Does Media Transformation have Predictable Democratization Effects? -- Conclusion: Implications for Public Controversy Scholarship -- NOTES -- Notes on contributors -- Citations of Original Publication of Articles.