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Review of Jürgen Habermas’s book Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik [A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics].
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Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Legitimacy and Authority, Globalization, Political Theory, and 15 morePlato, Animal Studies, Political Science, Edmund Husserl, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, Utilitarianism, Jean Paul Sartre, Vulnerability, Legal Philosophy, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Alter-globalization, Constituent Power, and Global Law
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures-this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose with their state's constitution in the name of warding off an urgent threat. But after decades... more
Exceptional times call for exceptional measures-this formula is all too familiar in the domestic setting. Governments have often played loose with their state's constitution in the name of warding off an urgent threat. But after decades of increasing interconnectedness and emerging transnational governance, today one sees new forms of emergency politics that are cross-border in range. From the European Union (EU) to the World Health Organization (WHO), from supranational institutions to state governments acting in concert, the logic of emergency is embraced in international contexts, with Covid-19 the latest occasion. This Forum offers an entry-point into this emerging phenomenon. Taking as its point of departure two recent books, it examines the origins, forms, effects and normative stakes of emergency politics beyond the state. Amongst the matters discussed are the concept of emergency politics, the historical context of its contemporary forms, the patterns of decision-making associated with it, the implications for the legitimacy of transnational institutions, and the constitutional and political ways in which it might be contained. Transnational emergency politics seems likely to remain a central feature of the coming years, and our aim is to further its study in IR.
Research Interests: Constitutional Law, International Relations, Legitimacy and Authority, International Relations Theory, Globalization, and 14 moreInternational Law, Governance, Diplomacy, European Union, Democracy, Emergency Management, Constitutional Theory, Carl Schmitt, European Union Politics, Financial Crisis, State of exception, Technocracy, Constitutional Law Theory, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Few debates in political theory are challenged as much by the constant change of their empirical subject as those about democracy in the European Union (EU). With A Republican Europe of States, Richard Bellamy responds to the EU's... more
Few debates in political theory are challenged as much by the constant change of their empirical subject as those about democracy in the European Union (EU). With A Republican Europe of States, Richard Bellamy responds to the EU's post-Lisbon era, which has been characterized by the euro crisis, conflicts over migration, the rise of Euroscepticism, and Brexit. Keeping an eye on these contextual conditions and the related legal and political transformations, he has developed a general theory of international democracy aimed at securing non-domination between peoples and between citizens and their representatives at the international level, and elaborated its implications for the EU. The result is a distinctive version of demoi-cracy, whose firm centering on the nation-state as the natural locus of democracy is likely to be controversially discussed. In this article, I raise some critical considerations regarding the design of demoi-cratic institutions, the adequate understanding of EU citizenship, and the normative credentials of differentiated (dis-)integration.
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This is a reply to a review symposium on my book "Usurpation und Autorisierung: Konstituierende Gewalt im globalen Zeitalter".
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Many people believe that the UK's decision to leave the EU spells trouble for both country and continent, yet by and large think that the exit vote and process, painful though they may be, adhere to the rules and spirit of democratic... more
Many people believe that the UK's decision to leave the EU spells trouble for both country and continent, yet by and large think that the exit vote and process, painful though they may be, adhere to the rules and spirit of democratic self-government. Peter Niesen and Markus Patberg argue that in one important respect this is not the case, since fully democratic credentials require reversibility in decision-making and are incompatible with an irreversible loss of political rights.
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Brexit has given rise to a range of critical issues. For example, was the composition of the electorate for the referendum adequate? What follows from the fact that some parts of the UK voted to remain? What will happen to resident EU... more
Brexit has given rise to a range of critical issues. For example, was the composition of the electorate for the referendum adequate? What follows from the fact that some parts of the UK voted to remain? What will happen to resident EU citizens? Will the EU try to set a warning example in the withdrawal negotiations? It hence prompts the need for a normative theory of disintegration.
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Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Globalization, Political Theory, Agonistic Pluralism, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, and 10 moreGlobalization and Governance, Bonnie Honig, William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe, Constituent Power, Global democracy, Agonism, Pouvoir Constituant, James Tully, and Agonistic Democracy
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"This is a response to John S. Dryzek’s “Global Democratization: Soup, Society, or System?” in the Summer 2011 issue of Ethics & International Affairs."