The Ironic Turn Of Liberalism: The Face Of Authoritarian Freedom

Abstract

A large number of scholars have underlined the current turbulent character of the liberal and global order, which, for a long time, represented itself and was perceived as a stable and inevitable order. Despite the reluctance of some areas of the planet to accept
the liberal-democratic model made in the USA, a fairy tale told us that the global free market, the World Wide Web, and technological development would surely lead everyone to choose human rights and liberal democracy. Yet, we are now dealing with a shocking sequence of ‘crises’: terrorism, environmental damage, unstable economy, migrations, a healthcare crisis, and even open military aggression. The essay hypothesizes that liberalism’s firmness in preserving its global position entails not only the divorce
from the contingent alliance with representative democracy but also the activation of its inherent security liberticidal logic.

Keywords

authoritarian liberalism

crises

liberal democracy

securitization

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