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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• Rationalizing the emergency
• Authoritarian and populist temptations
• States of exception and the politics of technology
• Democracy and liberalism: authoritarian, populist, and corporatist challenges
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Part I Liberal democracy and the use of exceptional powers
• 1 Carl Schmitt’s conception of sovereignty, the UN Security Council, and the instrumentalization of the “state of exception”
• The UN Security Council’s P5 as Schmittian ruler
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 2 Right, might, and technopolitics: The problem of republican dictatorship from James Harrington to James Madison
• Machiavelli’s critics
• Harrington’s response to Hobbes
• The Dictatorship of Oceana
• Harringtonian nightmares in the Scottish Enlightenment
• James Madison and the state of exception
• Conclusion: republican dictatorship reconsidered
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 3 Exception as alibi: Rhetorics of emergency and bare life in the War on Terror
• Declarations of national emergency
• Rethinking subjecthood in the state of exception
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 4 Tactics of battle, strategies of state: Hurricane Katrina and the counterterror exception
• Discourses of criminality and insurgency
• Case study 1: counterinsurgent pacification and Blackwater USA
• Case study 2: counterterror detention at Camp Greyhound
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 5 Exceptional biometrics
• The EU immigration “crisis”
• EU immigration and biometrics
• Externalization as deterrence
• Externalization and biometrics
• Exception and biometrics
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Part II The liberal state: Populist, authoritarian, and corporate challenges
• 6 A theory of populist democracy
• Constitutional democracy as the populist alter
• An ambiguous term
• The frame of democratic diarchy
• An inadequate hyphenation
• The populist ambition
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 7 The populist right: Anti-liberal politics and conservative temptations
• A “crisis of representation”: the tension between populism and democracy
• Historicizing the Right: ideological ambiguities and political practices
• The collaboration between the Radical and Conservative Right
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 8 Public engagement: An outline of a critical conception
• Democratic outcomes and democratic practice
• Deliberative democracy and beyond
• Inclusive decision-making
• Facing the challenges—political agency
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 9 Corporatism and economic performance
• Political economy of corporatism
• Corporatism in modern-day economies
• Corporatism and the welfare state
• Corporatism and economic performance
• Corporatism and financial crises
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index