Egypt’s Liberal Coup? – Shorter Open Democracy version
This first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. A substantially extended version was published here. Clarification …
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Egypt’s Liberal Coup?
An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …
Brendan Simms on the ‘Armed Missionaries’ of Freedom
“One way or the other, Robespierre’s warning that Europe would not welcome ‘armed missionaries’ was vindicated: the ‘reason’, ‘fraternity’, ‘equality’ …
Brendan Simms on the first stirrings of ‘Liberal Interventionism’
“The international turbulence of the late 1760s and 1770s strengthened interventionist sentiment in Europe. In the 1770s no fewer than …
Michael Sandel on Character, Self-knowledge, and Friendship
‘If the deontological ethic fails to redeem its own liberating promise, it also fails plausibly to account for certain indispensable …
The Tragedy of Bangladesh; from ‘minimalist democracy’ to ‘illiberal democracy’
Under such conditions, the institution of patronage rapidly consolidated itself as a dominant form of political practice within the state, …
Talal Asad on ‘Defining the Essence of Religion’
‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …
