Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less freeMany governmental functions today-from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation-are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through pri…
Facticity and Validity is one of Jürgen Habermas's principal works. In it, he proposes an innovative justification for the principles of the democratic constitutional state, and, at the same time, sums up his thinking on social theory and ethics (i.e. the theory of communicative…
The book builds on an important emergent body of discussion which questions, both empirically and theoretically, the conventional neoclassical doctrine that economies are more efficient if the state withdraws from it. It develops a “space-time” approach to state theory as a way …
Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanct…
The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has called into question. This book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law, economics and…
Die Europäische Union ist kein neuer Staat. Sie ist fragmentiert, umkämpft, voll innerer Widersprüche. In wenigen Bereichen wird dies so deutlich wie im europäischen Grenzregime. Dieser Band versammelt die Ergebnisse einer intensiven vierjährigen Forschungsarbeit. Ausgehend von …
