The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics

What is the problem to which solidarity is invoked as a solution? How are solidarity schemes narrated? Which particular interests are pursued in its name? In this book, leading authorities in law, philosophy and political sciences respond to the solidarity question, drawing on debates on international law, international aid, collective security, joint action, market organization and neo-liberalism, international human rights across the North/South divide, African mobility, transnational labour in the digital age and populism. This volume captures the shifting nature of long-held historical assumptions on solidarity. Its twelve chapters open up for differentiated understandings of solidarity in law and politics beyond discursive cliché or ideological appropriation, bringing crises of the past into conversation with the crises of today. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Eleni Karageorgiou is Senior Researcher in Public International Law. Her PhD thesis on solidarity in refugee protection has been awarded the Oscar II’s stipend by Lund University. She has received funding for postdoctoral research, which led to the publication of the edited volume Law, Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe: Constitutional Tensions for EU Integration (Edward Elgar, 2022).

Gregor Noll is Professor of International Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg, and a guest researcher at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. He has written on subjects in the theory of international law, migration law, international humanitarian law and law and AI.