Liberalism Books

New and Published Books

1. Transatlantic Regulation

   Edited by Susanne Lütz

   The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Democracy and Violence

   Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Assessing the Capitalist Peace

   Edited by Gerald Schneider, Nils Petter Gleditsch

   Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist societies and the openness of the economy are among...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy

   Cities and Transcendence

   By Jonathan N. Badger

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Nigel Ashford, Stephen Davies

   First published in 1991, this is a reissue of the pathbreaking Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, the first book to examine the ideals and arguments produced by the intellectual traditions of both conservatism and classical liberalism. Covering the ideas of many...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Economic Patriotism in Open Economies

   Edited by Ben Clift, Cornelia Woll

   Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

   The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets. Despite the ambitions of international economic cooperation, such interventionism is decidedly local. Some politicians even proudly evoke "economic...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Toleration Re-Examined

   Edited by Derek Edyvane, Matt Matravers

   The problem of how we are to live together in morally and culturally diverse democratic societies is central to modern life. Over the last thirty years, an extensive philosophical literature has developed around the idea of toleration as a way of engaging with that problem. However, recent years...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

   The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India

   By Ravi Raman

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Self-Realization and Justice

    A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment

    By Julia Maskivker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fairness to competing conceptions of the good, but rather to a contentious (but defensible) normative ideal, namely, self-realization. In so doing, she...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge