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Out Of Many, One?, Kenneth L. Karst
Out Of Many, One?, Kenneth L. Karst
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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Global Migration - Immigration - Multiethnicity: Challenges To The Concept Of The Nation-State, Jost Delbruck
Global Migration - Immigration - Multiethnicity: Challenges To The Concept Of The Nation-State, Jost Delbruck
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Professor Delbriick begins his article by briefly discussing the
history and development of the nation-state, and then examines how
changes in the political and social environment, often international
and cross-cultural in nature, have altered the traditional notion of
the nation-state. He argues that the modern form of the State
should be based on the concept of the "Open Republic, " rather than
on that of the traditional closed, self-centered, and self-reliant
nation-state. Professor Delbriick demands that his concept of an
"Open Republic" first be grounded in the form of a republican
State-a constitutional government involving the democratic
participation of all …