Liberal Disorder, States of Exception, and Populist Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367425234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str.

Valur Ingimundarson; Sveinn Jóhannesson

Opis

Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I Liberal Democracy and the Use of Exceptional Powers  1. Carl Schmitt’s Conception of Sovereignty, the UN Security Council, and the Instrumentalization of the "State of Exception"  2. Right, Might and Technopolitics: The Problem of Republican Dictatorship from James Harrington to James Madison  3. Exception as Alibi: Rhetorics of Emergency and Bare Life in the War on Terror  4. Tactics of Battle, Strategies of State: Hurricane Katrina and the Counterterror Exception  5. Exceptional Biometrics  Part II The Liberal State: Populist, Authoritarian, and Corporate Challenges  6. A Theory of Populist Democracy  7. The Populist Right: Anti-Liberal Politics and Conservative Temptations  8. Public Engagement: An Outline of a Critical Conception  9. Corporatism and Economic Performance

O autorze

Valur Ingimundarson is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Iceland and Chair of the Board of the EDDA Research Center.

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson is Fennell Early Career Research Fellow in American History at the University of Edinburgh and teaches at the University of Iceland.