nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200402-161546-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200402s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200402-161546-0 doi eng 342 23 Farahat, Anuscheh Author aut Against the Apocalyptic Swan Song - A Plea for Practical Hope in Times of Crisis Farahat, Anuscheh Verfassungsblog 2020-04-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Gloomy future scenarios are currently popular. Hardly a day goes by without predictions of the demise of the EU, a spiral of nationalism or the path to an authoritarian, xenophobic surveillance state. However, in the current competition to outbid disaster scenarios, we tend to forget that political developments are just as little inevitable and without alternatives as crisis response measures. The choice between alternatives still exists and is more important today than ever. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus Globalisierung State of Emergency Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/against-the-apocalyptic-swan-song/ raw object