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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge zum 22. Österreichischen Europarechtstag 2023 zum Thema "Strukturprinzipien des Unionsrechts". Sie untersuchen, wie man angesichts einer zunehmenden Fragmentierung des Unionsrechts in unterschiedliche Teildisziplinen das "große Ganze" dieser Materie nicht aus den Augen verliert - also genau jene Essenz, welche das Wesen der Union ausmacht und sie in ihrem Innersten zusammenhält. Als strukturiertes Netz miteinander verflochtener Grundsätze, Regeln und Rechtsbeziehungen stellen diese vielfältigen Strukturprinzipien von verfassungsrechtlichem Charakter eine Konstante des Unionsrechts dar, welche letztendlich gewährleisten, dass es als einheitliche Rechtsordnung kohärent operieren kann.Mit Beiträgen vonFriedrich Erlbacher | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Folz | Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Paul Gragl | Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl, LL.M. | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marcus Klamert, M.A. | Dr. Christoph Krenn | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Brigitta Lurger, LL.M. (Harvard) | Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller, LL.M. (Yale) | Univ.-Ass. Dr. Laura Pavlidis | Dr. Julia Schmoll | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Somek | Prof. i.R. Dr. Christoph Vedder | Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Lorin-Johannes Wagner

Ursprünglich als progressive Identitätspolitik an Universitäten entstanden, hat Wokeness sich mehr und mehr als Bewegung in staatlichen Institutionen und in Denkmustern von Menschen ausgebreitet wie festgesetzt. Die Psychologin Esther Bockwyt betrachtet den Ursprung und die Folgen der Woke-Bewegung erstmals aus psychologischer Perspektive. Sie sieht Wokeness als den exzessiven wie vergeblichen Versuch, Menschen vor der Übernahme von reifer Verantwortung und unerwünschten Empfindungen zu schützen. Die positive Idee des Schutzes von Minderheiten und des Ausgleichs von Ungerechtigkeiten ist in ein starres, einengendes Schubladendenken mit pessimistischem Welt- und Menschenbild gedreht, sodass eine schwer überwindbare Wand zwischen Benachteiligten und Privilegierten entstehen kann. So kritisch wie ausgewogen und fernab von schrillen Tonlagen fragt die Autorin: Was bedeutet Wokeness für unsere psychische Gesundheit und das gesellschaftliche Miteinander? Was passiert, wenn Narzissmus, Gewissenhaftigkeit oder Aggression im Namen der Wokeness ein gesundes Maß überschreiten? Und wie entsteht eine gesunde Balance zwischen entgegengesetzten Kräften? (Verlagstext)

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath. Following the virus in real time, it explores the fears, risks and responses to the global pandemic, and how it has shaped our everyday lives against the backdrop of social and political upheaval, and the looming climate crisis. Social theorist and moral philosopher, Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, discusses fundamental questions of inequality and injustice regarding race, class and gender brought to the fore by the visibility of varying risk levels, vulnerabilities and protections provided by legislative measures against the virus. This interdisciplinary analysis scrutinises values, ethics, responsibilities and uncertain futures formed by the global health crisis, and evaluates media and communications strategies, government responses and political communications at domestic and international levels. Seidler shares critical insights into the cultural history of pandemics, highlighting lessons to be learned from anticipating, preparing for and enduring moments of crisis. Perceiving how the pandemic and climate emergency are interwoven, the book concludes with an urgent call to rebuild sustainable economic, political and ecological imaginations. This wide-reaching volume will appeal to a broad academic readership in environmental studies, sociology, philosophy, health studies, cultural studies, gender studies, media and communication.

Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is an accessible primer on the contemporary US militia movement. Exploring the complicated history of militias in the United States, starting with the Revolutionary War period, this book leverages unique data from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and previously unseen archival materials from militia founder Norm Olson to detail the modern movement's origin and trajectory through the attempted insurrection of January 6th and beyond. This book uses the lenses of nostalgia and settler colonialism to explain militia members' actions and beliefs, including their understandings of both nationalism and masculinity. This approach situates militias ina broader political landscape and explains how and why they will continue to be relevant actors in American politics. A general audience will find this book approachable, and it will be of particular interest to people studying militias or other social movement organizations whose vision of an ideal nation rests on a nostalgic image of the past and potentially encourages political violence.

"Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions. Adopted by over 80 developing jurisdictions, the World Bank's 1993 regulatory template for electricity sector reform has been one of the most widely diffused regulatory models. This book uses the example of its implementation in India to address the more general process of regulatory globalisation for developing countries. Amongst other objectives, the World Bank's template endeavoured to insulate economic decision making from politics through legal reform. Through this template, the World Bank endeavoured to transform the role of the Indian state in the electricity sector from an interventionist or welfare state to a neo-liberal regulatory state by imposing constitution-like obligations. The book demonstrates that the unique social, economic and political characteristics of a jurisdiction cannot be ignored when incorporating a regulatory template in a jurisdictional context; for, by influencing the way an external regulatory model is internalized, it is these characteristics that determine its outcome. Providing a detailed empirical analysis of this key aspect of development policy, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of law and development, politics and public administration; as well as development practitioners and policy makers involved in reforming sector regulatory frameworks in their countries"--

"This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation. Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on representing the interests of disenfranchised people to the state and public and operates primarily within the regime of immigration law. Post-representational politics focuses on working collaboratively with those in detention, to resist and challenge the deportation system. Since representational politics is the predominant political imaginary of migrant rights campaigning, the book focuses on illustrating and evaluating the role of post-representational politics. The book argues that the concept of post-representational politics is important for understanding and participating in radical opposition to state racism. This argument rests on the expanded possibilities it motivates of engaging with and resisting institutions that are poised to co-opt resistance; the attention it fosters to the situated power dynamics of political activities that collaborate with imprisoned people; and its sensitivity to the politically and conceptually generative capacities of everyday, embodied practices of resistance. To make this argument, this book employs innovative methodology to illuminate and engage with the practice-based thinking of activist movements about the concepts of solidarity, hospitality, witnessing and accountability. This book will be of interest to scholars and activists with interests in socio-legal studies of immigration and refugee law, as well as others in social movement studies, critical legal studies, border criminology and critical theory"--

"This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, its role in international relations and its influence on history. The volume examines the Alliance's evolution in breadth, depth and context by analysing and explaining why and how NATO has endured and remained relevant since its creation. To present an inclusive study of the Alliance's activities and milestone events and to offer a glimpse of future challenges, the book's twenty-nine chapters fall into six thematic sections that act as frameworks and allow the exploration of specific topics that pertain to the evolution of NATO: Part I: History of NATO, 1949-2024. Part II: Key Enduring Themes, 1949-2024. Part III: Military Operations, 1995-2024 Part IV: National Perspectives, 1949-2024. Part V: Regional Perspectives, 1949-2024. Part VI: Future Prospects, 2024. This handbook will be of much interest to students and researchers of NATO, strategic studies, defence studies and International Relations, as well as for staff and fellows at security- and defence-oriented think tanks and government officials, military personnel and other practitioners in the areas of foreign affairs and defence"--

"Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law. With the vast environmental devastation being caused by climate change, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by international legal actors, and the need for international law to face up to its colonial past, international law needs to change. But in regulating and preserving a stable global order in which states act as its main subjects, the traditional sources of international law - international legal statutes, customary international law, historical precedents and general principles of law - create a framework that slows down its capacity to act on contemporary challenges, and to imagine futures yet to come. In response, this collection maintains that posthuman theory can be used to better address the challenges faced by contemporary international law. Covering a wide array of contemporary topics - including environmental law, the law of the sea, colonialism, human rights, conflict, and the impact of science and technology - it is the first book to bring new and emerging research on posthuman theory and international law together into one volume. This book's posthuman engagement with central international legal debates, prefaced by the leading scholar in the field of posthuman theory, provides a perfect resource for students and scholars in international law, as well as critical and socio-legal theorists, and others with interests in posthuman thought, technology, colonialism and ecology"--

"This book explores the scope and extent of the growing Chinese influence in India's neighbourhood and its impact on India as well as on Asian power politics. Through theoretical narratives and detailed case studies, it examines Chinese bilateral relationships in the Indian neighbourhood and looks at the extent and significance of Chinese influence through the lens of strategic, economic and infrastructural arrangements and Chinese interventions in South, Southeast and Central Asia. The book takes into account regional voices and domestic political compulsions in understanding what they make of the Chinese narrative and examines how and whether the narrative has changed in recent years through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as an instrument of Chinese public diplomacy. The volume also discusses how domestic narratives and compulsions in the Indian neighbourhood remain significant and how these, in turn, would impact the trajectory of Chinese public diplomacy. Intertwined through all these themes is a focus on the extent to which these could become potential flashpoints for India. This book will be a useful resource for academics and researchers working on Asian geopolitics and geo-economics, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics, international relations of Asia, Asian dynamics and Asian studies"--