Under what conditions could transnational citizens panels democratise planetary politics?

Under what conditions could transnational citizens panels democratize the way these planetary issues are addressed? If some attention has been paid to how the procedural aspects of citizens panels should be adapted in ‘upscaling’ from a national panel to one involving people from many countries (for example, how to redesign random selection to ensure transnational diversity, how to ensure good quality interpretation etc.) very little attention has until present been paid to the ways the ways the distinctively ‘planetary’ or transborder nature of the issues under discussion may require a profound rethinking of the ways citizens assemblies are conceived and facilitated: how to fully take account of the profound implications of such issues as climate change across the planet, for non-human beings, for future generations, for example? And what difference does it make that whereas national citizens panels in democracies find their place in a rich system of different forms of participation, representation, public discussion and political contestation, this system is much ‘thinner’ at transnational scale? This paper will suggest that for transnational citizens assemblies to be successful, dramaturgical methods and repertoires of performance should be taken as inspiration in the ways deliberation is performed, in the ways the planetary issues are presented and in the ways the transnational citizens assembly presents itself on a transnational stage of politics.