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Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com

• 18. Situating Hayek
• Phenomenology and the Neo-liberal Project
• Mark J. Smith

• 19. The Reading of Theoretical Texts
• Peter Ekegren

• 20. The Nature of Capital
• Marx after Foucault
• Richard Marsden

• 21. The Age of Chance
• Gambling in Western Culture
• Gerda Reith

• 22. Reflexive Historical Sociology
• Arpad Szakolczai

• 23. Durkheim and Representations
• Edited by W. S. F. Pickering

• 24. The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky
• Alison Edgley

• 25. Hayeks Liberalism and Its Origins
• His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment
• Christina Petsoulas

• 26. Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
• Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart

• 27. Living with Markets
• Jeremy Shearmur

• 28. Durkheims Suicide
• A Century of Research and Debate
• Edited by W.S.F. Pickering and Geoffrey Walford

• 29. Post-Marxism
• An Intellectual History
• Stuart Sim

• 30. The Intellectual as Stranger
• Studies in Spokespersonship
• Dick Pels

• 31. Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science
• A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas
• Austin Harrington

• 32. Methodological Individualism
• Background, History and Meaning
• Lars Udehn

• 33. John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression
• The Genesis of a Theory
• K.C. ORourke

• 34. The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation
• From Terror to Trauma
• Michael Humphrey

• 35. Marx and Wittgenstein
• Knowledge, Morality, Politics
• Edited by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants

• 36. The Genesis of Modernity
• Arpad Szakolczai

• 37. Ignorance and Liberty
• Lorenzo Infantino

• 38. Deleuze, Marx and Politics
• Nicholas Thoburn

• 39. The Structure of Social Theory
• Anthony King

• 40. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
• Deborah Cook

• 41. Tocquevilles Moral and Political Thought
• New Liberalism
• M.R.R. Ossewaarde

• 42. Adam Smiths Political Philosophy
• The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order
• Craig Smith

• 43. Social and Political Ideas of Mahatma Gandi
• Bidyut Chakrabarty

• 44. Counter-Enlightenments
• From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
• Graeme Garrard

• 45. The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell
• A Reassessment
• Stephen Ingle

• 46. Habermas
• Rescuing the Public Sphere
• Pauline Johnson

• 47. The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
• Stuart Isaacs

• 48. Pareto and Political Theory
• Joseph Femia

• 49. German Political Philosophy
• The Metaphysics of Law
• Chris Thornhill

• 50. The Sociology of Elites
• Michael Hartmann

• 51. Deconstructing Habermas
• Lasse Thomassen

• 52. Young Citizens and New Media
• Learning for Democractic Participation
• Edited by Peter Dahlgren

• 53. Gambling, Freedom and Democracy
• Peter Adams

• 54. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
• Amos Morris-Reich

• 55. Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
• William E. Scheuerman

• 56. Hegemony
• Studies in Consensus and Coercion
• Edited by Richard Howson and
• Kylie Smith

• 57. Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
• Majia Holmer Nadesan

• 58. Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies
• Learning to Live with the Future
• Edited by Stephen Gough and Andrew Stables

Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies

Learning to Live with the Future

Edited by Stephen Gough and Andrew Stables

First published 2008
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Simultaneously published in the UK
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Sustainability and security within liberal societies : learning to live with the future / edited by Stephen Gough and Andrew Stables.
p. cm.(Routledge studies in social and political thought)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-415-95582-9
1. Political ecology. 2. Liberalism. 3. Sustainable developmentPolitical aspects. I. Gough, Stephen, 1953 II. Stables, Andrew, 1956
JA75.8.S86 2008
304.201dc22
2008002954

ISBN 0-203-89404-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-95582-3 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-89404-9 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-95582-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-89404-0 (ebk)

Preface

This volume explores the interrelationships between four concepts: sustainability, security, liberalism and learning. While each of these is the focus of a literature in itself, it is our contention that each is most fruitfully explored in the context of the others, rather than at their expense.

That is to say, policies are often proposed to achieve sustainability through the suppression of individual freedom; by contrast, a liberal society can be maintained for some considerable time by an ultimately unsafe reliance on oil. While many will recognise the latter as the status quo for much of the Western world, the former can be associated with deep-ecological and ecosocialist critiques, according to which sustainability must be achieved at the cost of severe restrictions on energy use, accumulation of wealth, and the freedom to travel: in short, at the cost of many of the central elements of contemporary liberalism.

It is our view that such utopian solutions are unlikely to offer the way forward. Apart from the fact that liberal democracy is generally popular, innovation in cleaner technologies requires investment within a context of peaceful international cooperation, and investment requires wealth creation, not merely redistribution. Even major states that are not politically liberal-democratic (such as China) have made this realisation, adopted liberal economics, and committed themselves to strong economic growth. The prospect of abandoning economic progress to the cause of sustainability may well have even less appeal for the citizens of Brazil, China, and India than it does for those of Britain or the United States. Sustainability and security must both be sought, therefore, within the context of a liberal political settlement, not outside it. Put another way, currently unsustainable and insecure liberal societies must learn to be sustainable and secure.

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