The EI Podcast
EI Weekly Listen — Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
Dec 15, 2023
The podcast discusses the challenges facing democracy and the international order, including state invasions, treaty violations, and secessionist movements. It explores the decline of democracy in Western democracies and the shift towards strong leaders over elections. The changing nature of the state and the need to shape the upcoming constitutional order is also explored, along with the challenges faced by liberal democracy in preserving values.
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- Understanding what is going wrong in the international order requires understanding the crisis in the constitutional order of states.
- The rise of the informational market state challenges the prevailing constitutional order and undermines democracy.
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The Crisis of Democracy and the Constitutional Order
The podcast discusses the crisis in the international order and the constitutional order of states. It highlights various events, such as the annexation of territory, the development of nuclear weapons, defection from the European Union, and secessionist movements, as indications of what is going wrong with the dominant constitutional order. It also points out the decline in the global health of democracy and increasing disenchantment among youth. The podcast argues that the traditional industrial nation state is ill-equipped to address transnational problems like climate change and social media networks, which undermines democracy.
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