{"product_id":"liberty-and-security-9780745647197","title":"Liberty and Security","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Conor Gearty\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy  them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our  'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is  mocked by facts on the ground: the vast inequalities in supposedly free  societies, the authoritarian regimes with regular elections, and the terrible  socio-economic deprivation camouflaged by cynically proclaimed commitments to  human rights. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGearty's book offers an explanation of how this has come  about, providing also a criticism of the present age which tolerates it. He then  goes on to set out a manifesto for a better future, a place where liberty and  security can be rich platforms for everyone's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book identifies  neo-democracies as those places which play at democracy so as to disguise the  injustice at their core. But it is not just the new 'democracies' that have  turned 'neo', the so-called established democracies are also hurtling in the  same direction, as is the United Nations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new vision of universal  freedom is urgently required. Drawing on scholarship in law, human rights and  political science this book argues for just such a vision, one in which the  great achievements of our democratic past are not jettisoned as easily as were  the socialist ideals of the original democracy-makers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45203130843287,"sku":"9780745647197","price":1921.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780745647197.webp?v=1767307883","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/liberty-and-security-9780745647197","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}