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San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, symbolized California's desire for preeminence in Pacific trade and naval power. The expected reopening of an enlarged Panama Canal in 2015 is causing shippers, ports, and military strategists to reassess how the Golden State should adapt to the ever-growing importance of the Pacific world in global affairs. Such ongoing and future adaptations to the enlarged Panama Canal will continue to underscore and augment California's perennially close ties to the Pacific world.

Professor Thomas Osborne (SPAIS, University of Bristol, author of Aspects of Enlightenment: Social Theory and The Ethics of Truth (1998) and The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory (2008) visited Prague in mid-2018 and presented a paper On Montesquieu, Markets and the Liberalism of Fear. The interview was conducted online by Dr. Filip Vostal (CSTSS, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) in autumn 2020.

This paper takes a critical, synoptic view of the current upsurge of populism. Populism, it is argued, has long been a feature of liberal democracies in so far as claims are made for democracy to be as directly expressive as possible of the will of its subjects. Yet populisms are hybrid in form and parasitic on existing political arrangements. What unites them is more to do with what they oppose than what they espouse. Above all, it is the norms of liberalism that are brought into question by populist proponents of direct democracy with their characteristic hostility towards elites, experts and the so-called establishment. In so far as all populisms can be dangerous this lies in the degree to which they oppose the existing norms of liberalism and seek to undermine its moderating institutions. Rather than relying on generic theories of populism to explain contemporary developments, what needs investigation is the degree to which particular populisms prioritize fear over judgement, unqualified assertion over reasoned deliberation and resentment over the moderation of power.

1. Liberal government and techniques of the self / Graham Burchell -- 2. Governing "advanced" liberal democracies / Nikolas Rose -- 3. Liberalism, socialism and democracy : variations on a governmental theme / Barry Hindess -- 4. The promise of liberalism and the performance of freedom / Vikki Bell -- 5. Security and vitality : drains, liberalism and power in the nineteenth century / Thomas Osbourne -- 6. Lines of communication and spaces of rule / Andrew Barry -- 7. Assembling the school / Ian Hunter -- 8. Governing the city : liberalism and early modern modes of governance / Alan Hunt -- 9. Risk and responsibility / Pat O'Malley -- 10. Foucault, government and the enfolding of authority / Mitchell Dean -- 11. Revolutions within : self-government and self-esteem / Barbara Cruikshank -- 12. Foucault in Britain / Colin Gordon.