Populism and International Law: What Backlash and Which Rubicon?

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Symposium on Zoran Oklopcic’s ‘Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination’ – Introductory remarks

“…A rapidly growing literature focusses on the immediate challenges that liberal constitutional regimes are facing, often identified as a 'backlash' (Amato et al 2021;Martinico 2021;Nijman and Werner 2019;Sadurski 2019Sadurski , 2022. It is, however, probably not a coincidence that in roughly the same period in which this backlash has become visible, we have also witnessed an upsurge of interest in a broader, systemic and more historicized curiosity in constitutional orders, in particular with regard to cultural, symbolic and imaginary dimensions of constitutions and constitutionalism (cf.…”