Turning Points : : Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century /

Turning Points : : Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century / / ed. by Holger Janusch, Witold Mucha, Julia Schwanholz, Alexander Reichwein, Daniel Lorberg.

Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century centers around the strikingly under-researched concept of turning points and its application in political science, including various theories, fields, and sub-disciplines. The chapters provide theoretical discussion and conceptua...

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Janusch, Holger,
Lorberg, Daniel,
Mucha, Witold,
Reichwein, Alexander,
Schwanholz, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Turning Points, Typology, and Puzzles
  • I Pushing Back Globalisation? Brexit and Trump
  • The impact of globalization and Europeanization on the societal foundations of Brexit
  • Brexit: From ever closer union to differentiated integration?
  • The American public and Trump's trade war with China
  • Digitalization, Trumpismo, and the end of the liberal world order?
  • II Challenging the World Order? China, Russia, and Ukraine
  • The end of the age of military intervention: Liberal interventionism and global order since the end of the Cold War
  • Crowding out the West? China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Asian infrastructure investment bank
  • American renewal or decline? The Biden administration, Europe, and the invasion of Ukraine
  • III Calling for Social Change? Norms and Practices
  • A tipping point in feminist foreign policy in Europe? A constructivist analysis based on the norm life cycle model
  • The turning point that was not: The Arab Spring, realism, and the circularity of Western policies toward the Arab world
  • Emerging and fading practices in the era of the internet: A reflexive approach to analysing intelligence professionals' changing practices of data collection
  • IV Changing Frozen Policies? Migration, Health, and Lobbying
  • The 2015 refugee situation as a turning point? Migration- and integration-related debates in the German Bundestag
  • COVID-19 as a potential turning point in German health policy
  • Obstacles on the path to lobbying transparency in Europe: Assessing the German turning point at the end of the Merkel era
  • V Dealing with Crises? Leadership and Market
  • Re-regulating the European high-tech capitalism? The EU's digitalization strategy at a turning point after the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The Social Market Economy and institutional development: Change in times of crisis
  • VI Reflecting on Uncertainty? Epistemics and Critique
  • The emergent discourse on global threats and risks: An analysis of the contemporary empirical evidence extant in scientific journals
  • On the precipice of the unknown: Discussing the paradigm of uncertainty as a political challenge to Western democracies
  • Index

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