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Republicanism has recently been defended by a variety of authors as a desirable alternative to liberalism. John W. Maynor is one of these. In his recent book, he has argued that republicanism is superior to liberalism, both in that its objectives are normatively preferable and because it is not beset with the same constitutive deficiencies as liberalism. However, his argument fails because the deficiencies he identifies in liberalism only apply to one class of liberals, and many of the normative aspects of his republicanism can be found in other forms of liberalism.

Vi lever i en tid av triumf och bakslag för liberalismen. I delar av världen har framgångarna varit så stora och uppslutningen så allmän att många nästan glömt bort att ideer man tar för självklara har just en liberal historia. På andra håll går utvecklingen i allt annat än liberal riktning. Färden mot fördjupad demokrati, vidgad marknadsekonomi och en stärkt ställning för medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter, som tedde sig så spikrak efter Murens fall och Sovjetunionens upplösning, visar sig plötsligt kunna gå i helt annan riktning. Hur kommer det sig? Handlar det främst om att makthavare och icke-liberala ideologer känner sig hotade av de liberala budskapen och mobiliserar emot dem? Eller har liberalismens företrädare lämnat angelägna frågor obesvarade och ställt ut löften som de inte har kunnat hålla? Kan liberala principer ha drivits för långt? Eller har liberaler tvärtom varit alltför lättsinniga i sin relation till filosofi och principer? Elva kvalificerade skribenter bidrar till denna antologi om en av vår tids mest centrala och laddade frågor

Concerns the foundations and implications of a particular form of liberal political theory. This title argues that one should see liberalism as a political theory committed to the value of autonomy.

The paper hopes to contribute to a reading of the political economy of the current global crisis with a focus on four interrelated themes. First, we discuss the constitutive role and functional character of crises in the evolution of neo-liberalism in particular and in capitalist reproduction in general. Second, we investigate the mechanisms by which financial crises recur by highlighting the structure-agency dynamics in finance capitalism; specifically, the structural tendency of financial markets to disintegrate that has been exacerbated by misbehaviour of economic agents. Third, we look at opposing crisis responses—from multilaterals to regional organisations to global civil society—and realise that responses from either pro-neoliberal or anti-neoliberal forces are fundamentally the same through the years, simply re-articulating analyses and programmes that they have respectively pursued and advocated long before the global crisis. And fourth, in the context of East and Southeast Asia, we examine the tendencies of the global crisis vis-à-vis the strengthening and even acceleration of emergent authoritarian liberalism in the region despite and because of the global crisis.

'Liberalism Without Perfection' offers an introduction to the debate between liberal perfectionism and political liberalism. This book is an account and defence of Rawlsian political liberalism, one of the most discussed, but widely misunderstood and criticized theories in contemporary political theory.

JOHN GRAY ARGUES THAT THE DOCTRINE OF VALUE PLURALISM POSES A SERIOUS CHALLENGE FOR THE RAWLSIAN AND MILLIAN KINDS OF LIBERALISM. THE ONLY PROPER POLITICAL DOCTRINE THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH VALUE PLURALISM IS A MODUS VIVENDI THAT CAN TAKE VARIOUS FORMS. HOWEVER, IN TRUTH, VALUE PLURALISM DOES LITTLE TO DIMINISH THE APPEAL OF LIBERALISM. UNDER MODERN CONDITIONS, ANY HALF-DECENT MODUS VIVENDI WILL LOOK MORE LIKE LIBERALISM THAN GRAY SUPPOSES.

Intro -- Contents -- Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship -- Introduction -- Part 1: Citizenship versus Liberalism -- 1 Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship: Three Models of Political Com mu ni ty -- 2 The Fetish of Individuality: Richard Flathman's Willfully Liberal Politics -- 3 Civic Resources in a Liberal Society: "Thick" and "Thin" Versions of Lib er al ism -- 4 From Community to Citizenship: The Quest for a Post- Liberal Public Phi los o phy -- 5 Is There Such a Thing As a Communitarian Political Philosophy? -- Part 2: Citizenship versus Nationalism -- 6 Nationalism's Challenge to Political Philosophy -- 7 Reflections of a Diaspora Jew in Israel -- 8 Hannah Arendt As a Critic of Nationalism -- 9 National Self-Determination: Some Cautionary Remarks on the Rhetoric of Rights -- 10 Citizenship and Nationalism: Is Canada a "Real Country"? -- 11 1989: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Nairn- Hobsbawm Debate -- 12 Civicism between Nationalism and Globalism: Some Refl ections on the Prob lem of Political Community -- Index.

Contemporary political theory has experienced a recent revival of an old idea: that of community. In Liberalism and Community, Steven Kautz explores the consequences of this renewed interest for liberal politics. Whereas communitarian critics argue that liberalism is both morally and politically deficient because it does not adequately account for equality and virtue, Kautz defends liberalism by presenting reports of various partisan quarrels among liberals (who love liberty), democrats (who love equality), and republicans (who love virtue).Founded on the classic texts of Locke and Montesquieu, the liberalism that Kautz advocates is cautious and conservative. He defends it against the arguments of important new communitarians-Richard Rorty, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Michael Sandel-and contrasts communitarian and liberal views on key questions. He discusses Walzer' s account of moral reasoning in a democratic community, engages Barber on the nature and limits of republican community, and takes on Rorty's communitarian account of moral psychology and the nature of the self. Kautz also explores the concepts of virtue, tolerance, and patriotism-issues of particular interest to communitarians which pose special problems for liberal political theory-in an effort to rebuild a new and more tenable interpretation of liberal rationality