Emergencies and Politics
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Emergencies and Politics

A Sober Hobbesian Approach

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Emergencies and Politics

A Sober Hobbesian Approach

About this book

In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies which indicates the possibility of a democratic politics that is liberal but that takes seriously threats to life and limb from public disorder, crime or terrorism. Informed by Hobbes, Schmitt and Walzer, but substantially different from them, the book widens the justification for recourse to normally forbidden measures, without resorting to illiberal politics. This book will interest students of politics, philosophy, international relations and law.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 1 Private emergencies and institutions
  5. 2 Public emergencies, black holes and sober Hobbesianism
  6. 3 Liberalism with Hobbesian sobriety
  7. 4 Can liberal emergency response address threats to peoples and civilizations?
  8. 5 Liberalism and emergency response: National community
  9. 6 Legislating for emergencies and legislating in emergencies
  10. 7 International security, human security and emergency
  11. Conclusion
  12. Index