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Global Migration And European Integration, Guy De Lusignan

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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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 …