Migration and the Unity of Society: A Liberal Perspective

Rechtstheorie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Christine Chwaszczca
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Perspective

Vertical Egalitarianism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rondel
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Liberal Perspective

This chapter examines liberalism (classical and contemporary) as a paradigm of “vertical” egalitarianism. It shows how, from a liberal perspective, the distinction between vertical and horizontal egalitarianism corresponds loosely to the distinction between coercive principles and ethical ideals. The loose correspondence consists in the fact that most of what goes on between a government and the citizens over whom it claims authority involves the possibility of (formal) coercion. And the converse tends to be true about horizontal relationships: most of what takes place in civil society—between or among citizens—falls outside the purview of legitimate coercive interference. Beyond respecting the formal rights of others, horizontal relationships tend to be markedly free of formal coercion.

Building Up and Tearing Down

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dace Dzenovska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Critical Practices ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Liberal Perspective

Chapter 4 examines critical thinking as the skill that tolerance workers understood to be crucial for cultivating tolerant selves and publics in Latvia. Tolerance workers’ belief that critical thinking would lead to the correct conclusions about how to understand and live with ethnic, racial, and religious diversity coincided with extensive projects of promoting critical thinking in the former socialist world. From the liberal perspective, the former socialist world lacked critical thinking due to the legacies of an authoritarian political system and memorization-based education. This was thought to hinder the postsocialist subjects’ ability to establish the kind of relationship to their collective past that the European moral and political landscape demanded. However, lessons in political liberalism overlooked the multiplicity and heterogeneity of critical practices of former socialist subjects and obfuscated the historical specificity and ideological underpinnings of “critical thinking” as the special truth-producing instrument of actually existing political liberalism.

America’s exceptional empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jude Woodward
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
Line P ◽  
Liberal Perspective

The Obama administration announced in 2010 that the US would make a strategic foreign policy turn towards Asia i.e. China. This chapter shows that the discussion on this policy in the US is framed by a shared perception that the rise of China presents an existential challenge to the US-led world order that has prevailed since 1945. Some see conflict as an inevitable consequence of Great Power politics; others allege conflict will be unavoidable because China has regional expansionist aspirations or because China is a revisionist power that does not accept the rules of the ‘pax Americana’. The Pentagon is developing military strategies in the case of conflict with China. This chapter demonstrates that wherever the argument, starts, whether from a neocon or liberal perspective, whether concerned about the US’s economic, military or strategic position, all arrive at the same conclusion: China must be brought into line.

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