The liberal order: holed below the waterline or a ship that we can rebuild at sea?

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Corkin, J. 2019. The liberal order: holed below the waterline or a ship that we can rebuild at sea? in: Ahmed, T. and Fahey, E. (ed.) On Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 253-271
Chapter titleThe liberal order: holed below the waterline or a ship that we can rebuild at sea?
AuthorsCorkin, J.
Abstract

This chapter reads illiberal nationalist backlashes against the liberal order as a reaction to Modernity and its inbuilt bias towards a cosmopolitan universalism that subjects the local and the particular to rational critique and so threatens particularistic identities established in concrete communities. A (world) society, organised through the logics of legality and economics, builds an empire of law and reason that restricts politics, de-emphasises time and place, leaving many powerless and open to the predations of populists who promise to give them back control. On a charitable reconstruction, the liberal order, especially in multi-level configurations like the EU, might successfully organise the interactions of law, politics and expertise in an increasingly factually interdependent world, but only if they respect our historically-contingent choice to pursue democratic self-determination primarily through national political communities. This necessitates ongoing national legal independence, even as they manage its external effects and enable cooperation with others to achieve what it cannot alone.

Page range253-271
Book titleOn Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices
EditorsAhmed, T. and Fahey, E.
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
ISBN
Hardcover9781789903003
Electronic9781789903010
Publication dates
Print02 Dec 2019
Publication process dates
Deposited28 Nov 2019
Accepted01 Feb 2019
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903010.00027
LanguageEnglish
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