Challenges to Democracy: Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin

What is it about?

Challenges to Democracy covers a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning the variety of problems that democracies confront time and again. Their aim is to look at challenges to democracy that evolve from within democracy. It sets to examine how democracies, in different times, dealt with attempts to undermine democratic processes and fundamental human rights. The design of this book is both interdisciplinary and comparative, offering historical, philosophical, legal, sociological, political and media perspectives of renowned scholars from the United Kingdom, Israel, the United States and Canada. They analyze how different societies try to cope with and find answers for attacks against them by political extremists, cultural chauvinists, terrorists, hate groups and other radical movements. The essays provide a fresh and comprehensive analysis that undoubtedly enriches the literature on this intricate issue of how democracies should deal with illiberal challenges.

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Why is it important?

The book covers important issues that democracies must tackle time and again.

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