Leviathan

The democratic dimension of the German debt brake remains largely undiscussed in the public debate – although its introduction, according to the argument of this article, represents significant economic partisanship of the constitution. It can be...

Explaining climate policy delay cannot be done by focusing only on what causes the limited effectiveness of public critique. The boundaries of what can be articulated in terms of critique matter, too. Often, these boundaries are attributed to the...

While physical violence is still rare in German conflicts about ecological transformation, violence talk is highly prevalent. This article analyzes the discursive construction of violence and non-violence in ecological conflicts and examines its...

The article deals with the question of how contemporary societies adjust to climate change in terms of time. Using the example of the constitutional approach to climate change, two contrasting concepts of time – risk and catastrophe – are...

In response to the accusation of a normativity deficit, representatives of radical democratic theory argue for a concept of freedom that, understood as a democratic opening logic, is intended to offer a normative reference point. However, it is an...

Socio-ecological conflicts are differentiated into conflicts of interests, of justice, of values and environmental conflicts. They result from conflicting and changing constellations in the societal areas of technology, economy, politics and...

Germany has been discussing its relation to the People’s Republic of China and its party rule for a while. Based on the German government’s China strategy, we ask for a framework of analysis and evaluation. We criticize the failure to recognize...