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1. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Nicholas Onuf and Vojin Rakić/1 . - 2. World-Making, State-Building, Nicholas Onuf/ 19 . - 3. Politics, Law, and the Sacred: A Conceptual Analysis, Friedrich Kratochwil/ 37 . - 4. Kant's Semantics of World (State) Making, Vojin Rakić/ 59 . - 5. The semantics of early statebuilding: Why the Eurasian steppe has been overlooked, Iver B. Neumann/ 74 . - 6. The Semantics of Statebuilding and Nationbuilding: Looking Beyond Neo-Weberian Approaches, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert/ 89 . - 7. Transformative Statebuilding, Occupation, and International Law: Friends or Foes?, Jan Wouters and Kenneth Chan/ 106 . - 8. The Semantics of 'Crisis Management': Simulation and EU Statebuilding in the Balkans, David Chandler/ 119 . - 9. The Semantics of Contemporary Statebuilding: Kosovo, Timor-Leste, and the 'Empty-Shell' Approach, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert/ 135 . - 10.The 'Crisis of Capitalism' and the State - More Powerful, Less Responsible, Invariably Legitimate, Albena Azmanova/ 150 . - 11.The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Resilience and the Spectre of the Ecofascist State, Julian Reid/ 163

Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What unites the individual authors and chapters is an interest in open society's continuing usefulness and relevance to address current problems. And what distinguishes them is a rich variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds, and a wide range of academic disciplines and traditions. While focusing on probing the contemporary relevance of the concept, several chapters approach it historically. The book features a comprehensive introduction to the history and current 'uses' of the theory of open society. The authors link the concept to contemporary themes including education, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, African cosmology, colonialism, and feminism. The diversity of viewpoints in the analysis reflects a commitment to plurality that is at the heart of this book and of the idea of open society itself