The article serves to clarify the concept of "strong state" in neoliberal thinking and its relationship democracy. It is argued that move away from neoclassical market theory has paved way for specifically conception state As a result, neoliberalism at least strained, sometimes even hostile, with democracy when it comes ensuring efficiency stability capitalist system. analyses Carl Schmitt's "a...

Neoliberalism is an ideal subject for intellectual historians. It ideological movement that has been both theoretically sophisticated and influential, ensuring excursions along the highways byways of neoliberal thought can always be justified practically, as disclosing ideas have shaped contemporary politics. There also no shortage source material, voluble characters who generated ideology wrot...

This article examines the formation of political subjectivity in times neoliberalization and crisis. It does so by following meaning-making practices Penelope, a participant 2011 Syntagma Square occupation Athens. The encampment was at heart Greece’s anti-austerity movement. Prior to this experience, Penelope says she ‘wasn’t most sophisticated person’ politically, yet that ‘changed’ for better...

The notion of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has increasingly attracted attention in the academic literature. Up until now, however, the literature has focused on clarifying the principles for which research and innovation are responsible and on examining the conditions that account for managing them responsibly. Little attention has been reserved to exploring the political-economic ...

The recent 199798 Asian economic crisis has thrown Asia’s divergent pathways to development into serious question. Protagonists of neoliberalism argue that their agenda is now becoming a global orthodoxy when several ailing Asian economies have accepted IMF packages which come with neoliberal economic programmes. Drawing on lessons from Singapore’s regionalization programme, this article conten...