Liberal Disorder, States of Exception and Populist Politics

Liberal Disorder, States of Exception and Populist Politics has been published by Routledge. The book is edited by Valur Ingimundarson, a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Iceland and Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, a Postdoctoral Fellow in American History at the University of Edinburgh. 
 
The edited volume focuses on the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing liberal democracies. Over the last decade, the liberal order has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. Governments have turned to extraordinary emergency powers in response to various crises, in some cases disregarding the rule of law and democratic processes.

The shifting interconnections between new technologies and public power have raised questions about threats posed to democratic values and norms. Thus the liberal order has been challenged by authoritarian and populist forces promoting anti-pluralist agendas. The contributions weave together historical studies and conceptual analyses of states of exception, emergency powers, and their links with technological innovations, as well as the tension-ridden relationship between liberal democracy, on the one hand, and populist and authoritarian practices on the other — and its theoretical, ideological, and practical implications.
 
Contributors are Hans Köchler (University of Innsbruck, Sveinn M. Jóhannesson (University of Edinburgh), Alexandra S. Moore (Binghamton University), Jennifer N. Ross (Toronto University), Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York [CUNY]), Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University), Valur Ingimundarson (University of Iceland), Jón Ólafsson (University of Iceland), Juan Vincente Sola (University of Buenos Aires), and Gylfi Zoega (University of Iceland).