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This is a study of the concept of sovereignty in the modern epoch. For too long modern political theory has assumed the subject; it has also assumed the state. This book asks how each are effected in history through liberal-Enlightenment ethical and political affirmations which anchor themselves in a unique metaphysics of statecraft.

The fifty-year anniversary of the trial and execution of Adolph Eichmann saw the release of the Margarethe von Trotta film Hannah Arendt. This article considers the film's achievements in the context of Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, and especially her "lesson" that political evil consists not only in some demonic instinct or motive, but in a monstrous lack of imagination, a condition of radical philosophical thoughtlessness. The film is principally a character study of a political philosopher with strong convictions and an abiding concern for what Arendt saw as the unfortunate truth about Eichmann. Largely occluded are the enduring political themes with which Arendt's many books in political theory dealt – themes including power, conformity, and community. Yet, the film anticipates important moral and political questions of lasting relevance. There remains much to be learned about thoughtlessness in nations where power is broadly shared by the people. Concerns over evil's precise nature aside, the question of conformity in democracies remains important to consider as nationalist, ethnic, and sectarian sentiments arise anew in Russia, the Middle East, as well as the United States.

The fifty-year anniversary of the trial and execution of Adolph Eichmann saw the release of the Margarethe von Trotta film Hannah Arendt. This article considers the films achievements in the context of Arendts book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, and especially her lesson that political evil consists not only in some demonic instinct or motive, but in a monstrous lack of imagination, a condition of radical philosophical thoughtlessness. The film is principally a character study of a political philosopher with strong convictions and an abiding concern for what Arendt saw as the unfortunate truth about Eichmann. Largely occluded are the enduring political themes with which Arendts many books in political theory dealt themes including power, conformity, and community. Yet, the film anticipates important moral and political questions of lasting relevance. There remains much to be learned about thoughtlessness in nations where power is broadly shared by the people. Concerns over evils precise nature aside, the question of conformity in democracies remains important to consider as nationalist, ethnic, and sectarian sentiments arise anew in Russia, the Middle East, as well as the United States. ; Published version

Democracy and the state are two political notions that have come under considerable duress in late modernity. This paper considers a prominent critic of both, Sheldon Wolin. The paper examines three elements that figure in Wolin's analyses of democracy and the modern state in a central way: community, memory, and the culture of history. A theorisation of these elements can illuminate what is at stake in the articulation of political conceptions that yield communal forms through the constitution of political space. Wolin's analyses of democracy, the state, and modern power can be of help, first, in elucidating the political valences of the three elements themselves; second, in specifying relationships of mutuality among them; and third, in theorising what is at issue in the transposition of these elements from the domestic sphere to the international. The paper speaks mainly to the first and second concerns. A path is explored for thinking what is at stake in the third, namely, locating in and then transposing from the domestic sphere a 'we' which does not enjoy a precise ontology, but which is nonetheless capable of giving collaborative efforts in world-political spheres another political ground.

1 Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics; . - Part I Theoretical Interventions; . - 2 Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory;. - 3 Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy;. - 4 Marx and Materiality: "International Relations" as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies;. - 5 No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya. - 6 Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology. - 7 Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetic sof International Relations;. - Part II Security, Representation, and Subjectivity; . - 8 The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other;. - 9 Writing from the Edge;. - 10 The Presence of War: "Here and Elsewhere";. - 11 Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity;. - 12 Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement;. - 13 The Achievements of Feminism in IR. - Part III The Analytics of World Politics. - 14 Between U.S. Imperialism and "Empire": World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity;. - 15 "Beyond" the International: The Immanence of the Global;. - 16 Interdisciplining Global Thinking;. - 17 The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience;. - 18 Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations;. - 19 Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice;. - 20 The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested. - 21 Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method. - Part IV Virtual Communities;. - 22 What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History;. - 23 Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism;. - 24 The Last Frontier:Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism -- Contents -- 1 Reintroducing Statecraft -- References -- 2 The Ambitions of Government: Statecraft in Historical Perspective -- On the Origins of Statecraft -- Order and Legitimacy in Early Modern Statecraft -- Modern Statecraft and the Emergence of "The Economy" -- The Post-War Revival of Statecraft -- Neoliberal Statecraft -- The Problem of Securitization -- Reviving Statecraft -- References -- 3 The Public Purpose of Political Economy -- The "Awkward Problem" of Power -- The Contingencies of Countervailence -- Political Economy and the Pathologies of Political Life -- Reconstituting the Public Purpose -- References -- 4 National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and Development -- Economic Statecraft as Knowledge of Particulars -- The Sources of Productive Power -- Lessons for Statecraft -- Toward "A Complete National Life" -- Developmental Futures -- Is Globalization to Blame? -- References -- 5 The Delicate Order of Liberalism -- The Pathologies of Economism -- The Delicate Organization of Liberalism -- The Decay of the Public Trust -- Deadlock and the Lure of Fascism -- Contemporary Perils -- The Task Ahead -- References -- 6 The Transgressive Economy -- The Accursed Share -- The Framework of the General Economy -- Myths of Sovereignty -- The Lure of Fascism -- Great Transformations? -- The Digital Economy -- Governing in an Age of Excess -- References -- 7 Democracy as Statecraft -- Does Statecraft Have a Future? -- Modern States, Modern Citizens -- From Governing to Governance: Wither the Demos? -- Democratic Potentials, Democratic Perils -- Statecraft as Citizencraft -- References -- 8 Conclusion: An Agenda for Citizenship -- References -- Index.

"In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the political, economic and cultural challenges that remain after the Trump administration's exceedingly inept leadership response. They explore the promise and limits of democracy relative to long-standing traditions of American political thought. The book argues that all Americans to consider the claims of citizenship amidst the forces consolidating today around narrow conceptions of race, nation, ethnicity and religion - each of which imperils the institutions of democracy and strikes at the heart of the country's political culture. Chapters on the media, political economy, fascism and social democracy, question what Americans have gotten so wrong, politically, and considers what kind of vision can lead the country out of a truly dangerous impasse in the years ahead. Citizenship after Trump constitutes a valuable and timely resource for self-critical analysis and will stimulate focused discussions about as-of-yet unexplored regions of America's political history"--

Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the governing challenges posed by each requires a more expansive vision of the scope and possibilities of state action than political scientists and economists have furnished to date. In Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism political economists Scott G. Nelson and Joel T. Shelton examine several key social and political dynamics of advanced capitalism for insights into the fate of equality, community and solidarity. In chapters addressing divergent problems and spanning several centuries, statecraft is presented as a conceptual lens through which the art and practice of public action is continually rearticulated in response to the shifting economic, social and political conditions of a given epoch. The authors examine several consequential moments in the long tradition of political economy in relation to the governing predicaments of the present day, highlighting those predicaments that bear upon the well-being of all people, especially societys most vulnerable. The book thus reintroduces the creative and purposive aspects of governing to the study and practice of Political Economy, a field that has been too preoccupied with technical, institutional and procedural aspects of economic management. Framing problems of governing national and global economies in relation to the craft of the state means searching out continuities between capitalism's early promise and present peril. Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022). Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020). .

The role of a free, open and critical press has always been central to democracy. In this chapter the changing structure of modern media industries are examined print, broadcast and digital to see how traditional functions of editing, story selection and reportorial investigation have been short-circuited in a new business environment devoted more to audience engagement than to citizen information. We also explore in detail how Trump in particular mastered the process of making himself newsworthy while simultaneously circumventing critical scrutiny of his actions. The chapter ends with an exploration of the ambiguous nature of new digital and independent social media outlets: susceptible both to conspiratorial alt-right community building and, at the same time, to a viable, critical community of independent investigative journalism. ; Accepted version ; Yes, full paper (Peer reviewed?)

What is the fate of democracy at this moment in American history? In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic. The book urges all Americans to consider the claims of citizenship amidst the forces consolidating today around narrow conceptions of race, nation, ethnicity and religion each of which imperil the institutions of democracy and strike at the heart of the nations political culture. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the political, economic and cultural challenges that are posed after the Trump administrations exceedingly inept leadership response. They also explore the promise and limits of democracy relative to long-standing traditions of American political thought. Citizenship after Trump thus offers valuable and timely resources for self-critical analysis and will stimulate focused discussions about as-of-yet unexplored regions of Americas political history. With chapters on the media, political economy, fascism and social democracy, the aim of this book is to question what Americans have gotten so wrong, politically, and what kind of vision can lead the country out of a truly dangerous impasse in the years ahead. ; Accepted version ; Yes (Peer reviewed?)