From the War on Terror to Climate Change

<p>From terrorism and economic crisis, to COVID-19 and climate change; the first decades of the 21st Century have seen democracies lurch from crisis to crisis, implementing legal and political responses to tackle the threat at hand. Many of these ostensibly emergency responses have, however, b...

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Main Author: Alan Greene
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Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
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Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/os7-4-emergencies/
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description <p>From terrorism and economic crisis, to COVID-19 and climate change; the first decades of the 21st Century have seen democracies lurch from crisis to crisis, implementing legal and political responses to tackle the threat at hand. Many of these ostensibly emergency responses have, however, become permanent, raising profound challenges to the legitimacy of both the constitutional norms impacted by the emergency response, and the emergency response itself. This plea to emergency must, however, be interrogated; Ultimately, what is key to understanding permanent emergencies is not the threat but the decision-maker that claims such an emergency exists. </p>
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spelling doaj.art-3ef898570bbb4ecda265bd8a6dbb24a02022-12-22T01:55:40ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442366-7044From the War on Terror to Climate ChangeAlan Greene<p>From terrorism and economic crisis, to COVID-19 and climate change; the first decades of the 21st Century have seen democracies lurch from crisis to crisis, implementing legal and political responses to tackle the threat at hand. Many of these ostensibly emergency responses have, however, become permanent, raising profound challenges to the legitimacy of both the constitutional norms impacted by the emergency response, and the emergency response itself. This plea to emergency must, however, be interrogated; Ultimately, what is key to understanding permanent emergencies is not the threat but the decision-maker that claims such an emergency exists. </p> https://verfassungsblog.de/os7-4-emergencies/Rule of Law, State of Emergency, states of emergency
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