Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 June 2021
- ISBN 9780198854753
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 240x160x24 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English 269
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Short description:
This book uses constitutional analysis and theory to explore the transformation of Europe from the post-war era until the Euro-crisis. Authoritarian liberalism has developed over these years and, as the book suggests, is now perhaps reaching its limit. This book uses history and theory to reveal the EU's journey and highlight future challenges.
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This title recounts the transformation of Europe from the post-war era until the Euro-crisis, using the tools of constitutional analysis and critical theory. The central claim is twofold: Europe has been gradually reconstituted in a manner that combines political authoritarianism with economic liberalism and that this order is now in a critical condition. Authoritarian liberalism is constructed supranationally, through a taming of inter-state relations in the project of European integration; at the domestic level, through the depoliticization of state-society relations; and socially, through the emergence of a new constitutional imaginary based on liberal individualism. In the language of constitutional theory, this transformation can be captured by the substitution of supranationalism for internationalism, technocracy for democracy, and economic for political freedom. Sovereignty is restrained, democracy curtailed, and class struggle repressed. This constitutional trajectory takes time to unfold and develop and it presents continuities and discontinuities. On the one hand, authoritarian liberalism is deepened by the neoliberalism of the Maastricht era and the creation of Economic and Monetary Union. On the other hand, counter-movements then also begin to emerge, geopolitically, in the return of the German question, domestically, in the challenges to the EU presented by constitutional courts, and informally, in the rise of anti-systemic political parties and movements. Sovereignty, democracy, and political freedom resurface, but are then more actively suppressed through the harsher authoritarian liberalism of the Euro-crisis phase. This leads now to an impasse. Anti-systemic politics return but remain uneasily within the EU, suggesting authoritarian liberalism has reached its limits if just about managing to maintain constitutional order. As yet, there has been no definitive rupture, with the possible exception of Brexit.
There has been much criticism of the EU's response to the euro crisis and the flawed architecture of the single currency itself. But Wilkinson demonstrates how the foundations for these problems were laid in the depoliticization that took place in the immediate postwar period, and have even deeper roots in the 'constitutional imagination' of the interwar period.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I - Interwar: A Pre-History of Authoritarian Liberalism
Authoritarian Liberalism in Late Weimar
Beyond Weimar: The Long Crisis of Liberalism, the Political Economy of the Interwar Conjuncture and the Foundations of Neo-Liberalism
Part II - Postwar Europe: The Reconstitution of Inter-State, State-Society, and Social Relations
Restraining State Sovereignty: Imagining a 'European Germany'
De-Democratization of the Political Constitution
The Economic Constitution: Ordoliberalism, Neo-liberalism, and the De-Radicalization of Political Opposition
Part III - The Road from Maastricht to Lisbon: Constitutional Movements and Counter-Movements
Restraining State Sovereignty or the Return of the German Question?
The Post-Sovereign Constitution or the Return of Sovereignty?
The Material Constitution: There is No Alternative...Or is There?
Part IV - Euro-crisis: The Unfinished Conjuncture
Authoritarian Liberalism Writ Large: The Spectre of a 'German Europe'
The New Constitutionalism and its Discontents
The Material Constitution in Crisis: Telos, Nomos, and Demos
Conclusion
