Transnational Solidarity: Concept, Challenges and Opportunities

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The book analyses the concept and conditions of transnational solidarity, its challenges and opportunities, drawing on diverse disciplines as Law, Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology and History. In the contemporary world, we see two major opposing trends. The first involves nationalistic and populistic movements. Transnational solidarity has been under pressure for a decade because of, among others, global economic and migration crises, leading to populistic and authoritarian leadership in some European countries, the United States and Brazil. Countries withdraw from international commitments on climate, trade and refugees and the European Union struggles with Brexit. The second trend, partly a reaction to the first, is a strengthened transnational grass-root community - a cosmopolitan movement - which protests primarily against climate change. Based on interdisciplinary reflections on the concept of transnational solidarity, its challenges and opportunities are analysed, drawing on Europe as a focal case study for a broader, global perspective.

Helle Krunke is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Copenhagen. She is First Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She has published extensively on Constitutional Law and EU Law and was invited to present papers at the University of Oxford, University of Sorbonne and European University Institute. Hanne Petersen is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She is the first Nordic Professor of Legal Cultures and has previously held positions as Jean Monnet Scholar at the European University Institute, Florence, Professor at University of Greenland, and Professor of Greenlandic Sociology of Law at the University of Copenhagen. Her publications relate, amongst others, to labour law, gender, religion, the Arctic and China. Ian Manners is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. He has previously been Professor at Roskilde University, Head of the unit at DIIS, Associate Professor at Malmoe University and at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Professor Manners' research interests lie at the intersection of critical social theory, the European Union and planetary politics.