The liberal order: holed below the waterline or a ship that we can rebuild at sea?
Book chapter
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 title | The liberal order: holed below the waterline or a ship that we can rebuild at sea? |
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Authors | Corkin, 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 range | 253-271 |
Book title | On Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices |
Editors | Ahmed, T. and Fahey, E. |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781789903003 |
Electronic | 9781789903010 |
Publication dates | |
02 Dec 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Nov 2019 |
Accepted | 01 Feb 2019 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903010.00027 |
Language | English |
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