In recent years, a number of critics of liberalism have focused on its supposed dependence on a voluntaristic and impoverished conception of the self and its inability in consequence to recognise and do justice to those moral phenomena – ideas regarding allegiance, desert and responsibility in particular – that are connected to the situatedness of embodied selves. Samuel Scheffler’s strategy in...

Today liberalism (or neoliberalism) is blamed for the growing inequality and poverty in the world as well as for ideological fundamentalism. Since such discussions are wide-ranging, held at universities and in political bodies, the author makes a distinction between liberalism as political philosophy and liberal – or as is now often called neoliberal – practical politics. According to him, libe...

The security externalities of globalization and capitalism continue to play an influential role in peace research. Typical contributions to these interrelated areas of scientific inquiry address the hope that the external openness (commercial liberalism) and the internal freedom of an economy (capitalist peace) pacify interstate as well as intrastate relations. I claim, despite the empirical su...

This essay argues that the “republicanism versus liberalism” debate came to prominence in 1980s was largely an artificial construction made possible by recent genealogies of its constituent terms. The first section suggests idea “early modern took shape from 1930s, and identifies three broad schools thought: Marxist, democratic classical. Despite their differences, they pioneered a stereotype “...

Despite being generally viewed as homogenous, the four provinces that make up Atlantic Canada have quite different Early Childhood Education and Care systems. Through in-depth interviews of policy actors within the four Atlantic Canadian provinces completed in 2011, this article illustrates that Prince Edward Island had an ‘inclusive liberal’ childcare system. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick mixe...