Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours (eBook)

Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization

Ewa Atanassow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22846-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours argues that Alexis de Tocqueville, one of democracy's greatest champions and most incisive critics, can guide us forward.Drawing on Tocqueville's major works and lesser-known policy writings, Ewa Atanassow shines a bright light on the foundations of liberal democracy. She argues that its prospects depend on how we tackle three dilemmas that were as urgent in Tocqueville's day as they are in ours: how to institutionalize popular sovereignty, how to define nationhood, and how to grasp the possibility and limits of global governance. These are pivotal but often neglected dimensions of Tocqueville's work, and this fresh look at his writings provides a powerful framework for addressing the tensions between liberalism and democracy in the twenty-first century.Recovering a richer liberalism capable of weathering today's political storms, Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours explains how we can reclaim nationalism as a liberal force and reimagine sovereignty in a global age-and do so with one of democracy's most discerning thinkers as our guide.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Accountability • A Different Story • Advocacy • Alexis de Tocqueville • Algeria • Ambiguity • Aryeh Neier • attempt • authoritarianism • Centrality • chauvinism • Collective identity • Competition • Consideration • contexts • Cost • David Webber • Debate • Decision-Making • declamation • Deliberation • disadvantage • Eastern Question • Employment • Entrapment • enumerated powers • Ethos • executive director • Fareed Zakaria • Feeling • foreign policy • Frank Kameny • Genre • George Chauncey • Globalization • Governance • Ideology • implementation • Individual • insignificance • Institution • Intellectual • International crisis • International Relations • Irony • John-Manuel Andriote • John Marshall • Kelly Services • Kompetenz-Kompetenz • Lee Badgett • Lesbian • liberal democracy • Management • Martin Duberman • messianism • Montesquieu • Nation • Nationalism • Nullification Crisis • obstacle • Oppression • Ownership • Patriotism • Peculiar institution • Persuasion • phenomenon • plaintiff • Policy • Political Consciousness • Politics • Precedent • Prerogative • Public Policy • Queering • Rapprochement • reason • Regime • Regulated market • Regulation • Requirement • Review article • Roger Berkowitz • Secret treaty • sexual harassment • shunning • Skill • social conflict • Sovereignty • Strategy • Suffering • theory • The Wretched of the Earth • Tragedy • transaction cost • Treating • Uncertainty • Underwriting • uniqueness • vulnerability • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22846-9 / 0691228469
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22846-4 / 9780691228464