ABSTRACT
This book offers a multi-discursive analysis of the constitutional foundations for peaceful coexistence, the constitutional background for discontent and the impact of discontent, and the consequences of conflict and revolution on the constitutional order of a democratic society which may lead to its implosion. It explores the capacity of the constitutional order to serve as a reliable framework for peaceful co-existence while allowing for reasonable and legitimate discontent. It outlines the main factors contributing to rising pressure on constitutional order which may produce an implosion of constitutionalism and constitutional democracy as we have come to know it. The collection presents a wide range of views on the ongoing implosion of the liberal-democratic constitutional consensus which predetermined the constitutional axiology, the institutional design, the constitutional mythology and the functioning of the constitutional orders since the last decades of the 20th century. The constitutional perspective is supplemented with perspectives from financial, EU, labour and social security law, administrative law, migration and religious law. Liberal viewpoints encounter radical democratic and critical legal viewpoints. The work thus allows for a plurality of viewpoints, theoretical preferences and thematic discourses offering a pluralist scientific account of the key challenges to peaceful coexistence within the current constitutional framework.
The book provides a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|37 pages
The constitutional foundations of democratic peace and democratic discontent in times of crisis and transition
part II|76 pages
Peace and discontent in the EU constitutional order
chapter 4|34 pages
‘Don’t you know they’re talkin’ ‘bout a revolution? (It sounds like a whisper)’
part III|61 pages
Peace, order, and disorder in composite societies
chapter 6|23 pages
Building order in age of revolutions
chapter 7|15 pages
Inequality and discontent
chapter 8|21 pages
A silent revolution
part IV|62 pages
Economic challenges to constitutional peace and order in times of crisis of neoliberalism