"We all aspire to liberty and security in our lives but few of us truly
enjoy them. In this lecture Conor Gearty describes how this has come to
be the case. Drawing on the insights set out in his latest book,
Liberty and Security (Polity 2013) he describes our world as
'neodemocratic', a place where 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 that is
camouflaged by cynically proclaimed commitments to human rights.
Gearty's lecture offers an explanation of how this situation has come
about how we can all think we enjoy freedom while so few of us do. The
lecture also provides a criticism of the present age which tolerates it.
At the end of the lecture Gearty sets out a manifesto for a better
future, a place where liberty and security can exist in truth and not
just in camouflage for servitude."
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