These are two important books. The Citizen and the Alien provides a rigorous and illuminating scr... more These are two important books. The Citizen and the Alien provides a rigorous and illuminating scrutiny of the conundrum faced by making out current concept and politics of citizenship work within liberal moral and political philosophy. The Birthright Lottery, a book with many virtues, recasts birthright citizenship in a manner analogous to the end of entailed property transmission brought about by liberal reform. This essay suggests that Bosniak is unduly pessimistic about bounded communities and that Shachar is unduly optimistic about the relationship between property rights and democracy.
Patriotism" involves a sense of belonging to and efficacy in a particular country. Civil, politic... more Patriotism" involves a sense of belonging to and efficacy in a particular country. Civil, political, social, and cultural rights and responsibilities are part of belonging, of being recognized as a legal member of society and deserving beneficiary of its various resources. But how is this belonging to be demonstrated? Loyalty to a set of constitutional principles has been one measure of belonging and of patriotismcivic nationalism. Another, long recessive in liberal societies has been ethno-cultural belonging. The tensions between the two have long marked American and German immigration, integration, and social welfare policies. Those tensions are examined here.
A four-year-old Muslim boy was brought to a local Cologne emergency room by his mother, who was c... more A four-year-old Muslim boy was brought to a local Cologne emergency room by his mother, who was concerned about minor bleeding around the site of a circumcision. A District Court there found that circumcision, notwithstanding parental consent or religious motivation, constituted a criminal bodily injury and child abuse. Ultimately, on July 19, 2012 the Bundestag resolved that “Jewish and Muslim religious life be viable in Germany,” and in December a bill was passed that legislatively overrode the ruling of the District Court and recognized circumcision as a non-punishable undertaking when undertaken for religious reasons by someone professionally trained. Two years of rancorous debate revealed a whole range of historical and contemporary fissures. This essay examines the dynamics of the debate and its various outcomes. In particular it asks whether the conflicts generated by practices like male circumcision can in immigrant societies be assimilated to prevailing religious freedom mo...
Is constitutional patriotism a basis for a politics of solidarity and redistribution? May more pa... more Is constitutional patriotism a basis for a politics of solidarity and redistribution? May more particularistic historical and cultural principles be added to the abstract and formal-legal demands of constitutionalism without fundamentally undermining it? As we know, the political left, more than once, has sought to speak for " the nation " as a concrete historical entity while, at the same time, holding fast to universalist, constitutionalist principles. Indeed, it has been argued that the left's most successful momentsfrom the French Revolution to the interwar popular fronts, to Chinese and Vietnamese communismhave been at those times when nation and class, the unique and the universal, the concrete and the abstract, have been ostensibly joined. And, of course, the left in postwar Germany has lived with a very diffi cult relationship to its particular history and nation, as is apparent in the 1948 Grundgesetz, as well as in many of the Habermasian formulations of constitutional patriotism with which we have become familiar. If " constitutional patriotism " is to mean something more than or different from, say, civic nationalism, and if Verfassungspatriotismus is to signify more than just the specifi c legal-political life of the liberal-socialist phase of the Bonn Republic, it must offer something beyond mere resonance with one or more distinct nation-state histories. 1 It must somehow both accommodate and integrate them. To begin with, solidarities and collective identities, no matter how constructed, simply have not gone away. Even the hippest pre-9/11 postnationalists, such as Arjun Appadurai, had to claim that countries were " one node in a
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, 2002
The end of the Cold War in 1990 led many observers East and West to conclude that the major divid... more The end of the Cold War in 1990 led many observers East and West to conclude that the major divides in the world had been closed. The 75-year-old battle between revolution and stasis, and the 45-year-old battle between the two Empires and the two worlds, had come to a close. With closure on the Cold War, a number of things happened. One of them, of course, was the unification of Germany. No doubt, the unification, or re-unification, of Germany was one development that made possible the seminars in Leipzig and in Miami, which in turn provided the opportunity for the production of the work appearing in this volume. More specifically the Universities of Miami and Leipzig were able in the post-cold-war world to inaugurate a joint seminar that would have escaped them, and did escape them, in the preceding period. In the course of the German university reform and expansion of the 1990's, the University of Leipzig, often in the past a center of great learning in the sciences and social sciences, also expanded its law faculty and its law offerings. Likewise, but in a very different way, the University of Miami in the 1990's was able to develop from a provincial university with a few venues of excellence into a significant and serious research institution. The law school of the university is a significant beneficiary of that development. This dual development in Leipzig and in Miami made possible the introduction and popularity of the exchange seminar between the two faculties and their students. In May of 2001, faculty members and students from the University of Miami School of Law went to historic Leipzig to exchange views with German faculty members and students. That exchange was reciprocated in March of 2002 by a visit and discussion with members of the faculty and student body from Leipzig in sunny Miami. Those two occasions produced the papers presented in this volume. This is an
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2010
In today's liberal democracies, the “social question” and the “immigration question” have bec... more In today's liberal democracies, the “social question” and the “immigration question” have become entwined as rarely before. Elites and citizens alike ask who belongs to the national political and social community of the “we” and what belonging entails in the way of rights and obligations. Under the impact of unprecedented free mobility for both capital and labor and the crises of the social welfare state, the borders and bonds of citizenship have been changing, mostly weakening. This essay takes a preliminary look at how these two questions are intertwined in the United States, Germany, and Israel.
This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and conseq... more This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and consequences of its 2004 enlargement in particular. This enlargement is by far one of the greatest tests for the European Union and its institutions because the process of Europeanization is taking place in a variety of countries with diverse political cultures and dissimilar perceptions about the meaning and commitment to European integration. Given their differences in political and economic power, incumbent and new members are inevitably altering the functioning and character of the EU, a unique polity in the international system. Derived from this theoretical challenge, the chapters of this book suggest some explanations on six areas related to the 2004 enlargement: analytical approaches, citizens and identities, debates and regional transformations, external impacts, and the potential Turkey's membership. The articles included in this publication are the result of the academic initiative of the Miami European Union Center, partnership formed by the University of Miami and Florida International University since 2000, which was also selected by the European Commission as one of the ten European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States for the period 2005|2008.
This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and conseq... more This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and consequences of its 2004 enlargement in particular. This enlargement is by far one of the greatest tests for the European Union and its institutions because the process of Europeanization is taking place in a variety of countries with diverse political cultures and dissimilar perceptions about the meaning and commitment to European integration.
Habermas and the public sphere I edited by Craig Calhoun. Thomas McCarthy p. cm.-(Studies in cont... more Habermas and the public sphere I edited by Craig Calhoun. Thomas McCarthy p. cm.-(Studies in contemporary German social thought) Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1999, Christian Joppke wrote Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Ger-many and... more In 1999, Christian Joppke wrote Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Ger-many and Great Britain, in which he showed that nation-states were resilient in their immigration policies and that sovereign-ty was still important. Although each country dealt with similar issues, ...
... The collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political economy and crisis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTO... more ... The collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political economy and crisis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Abraham, David (b. 1946, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691093563 ). ...
These are two important books. The Citizen and the Alien provides a rigorous and illuminating scr... more These are two important books. The Citizen and the Alien provides a rigorous and illuminating scrutiny of the conundrum faced by making out current concept and politics of citizenship work within liberal moral and political philosophy. The Birthright Lottery, a book with many virtues, recasts birthright citizenship in a manner analogous to the end of entailed property transmission brought about by liberal reform. This essay suggests that Bosniak is unduly pessimistic about bounded communities and that Shachar is unduly optimistic about the relationship between property rights and democracy.
Patriotism" involves a sense of belonging to and efficacy in a particular country. Civil, politic... more Patriotism" involves a sense of belonging to and efficacy in a particular country. Civil, political, social, and cultural rights and responsibilities are part of belonging, of being recognized as a legal member of society and deserving beneficiary of its various resources. But how is this belonging to be demonstrated? Loyalty to a set of constitutional principles has been one measure of belonging and of patriotismcivic nationalism. Another, long recessive in liberal societies has been ethno-cultural belonging. The tensions between the two have long marked American and German immigration, integration, and social welfare policies. Those tensions are examined here.
A four-year-old Muslim boy was brought to a local Cologne emergency room by his mother, who was c... more A four-year-old Muslim boy was brought to a local Cologne emergency room by his mother, who was concerned about minor bleeding around the site of a circumcision. A District Court there found that circumcision, notwithstanding parental consent or religious motivation, constituted a criminal bodily injury and child abuse. Ultimately, on July 19, 2012 the Bundestag resolved that “Jewish and Muslim religious life be viable in Germany,” and in December a bill was passed that legislatively overrode the ruling of the District Court and recognized circumcision as a non-punishable undertaking when undertaken for religious reasons by someone professionally trained. Two years of rancorous debate revealed a whole range of historical and contemporary fissures. This essay examines the dynamics of the debate and its various outcomes. In particular it asks whether the conflicts generated by practices like male circumcision can in immigrant societies be assimilated to prevailing religious freedom mo...
Is constitutional patriotism a basis for a politics of solidarity and redistribution? May more pa... more Is constitutional patriotism a basis for a politics of solidarity and redistribution? May more particularistic historical and cultural principles be added to the abstract and formal-legal demands of constitutionalism without fundamentally undermining it? As we know, the political left, more than once, has sought to speak for " the nation " as a concrete historical entity while, at the same time, holding fast to universalist, constitutionalist principles. Indeed, it has been argued that the left's most successful momentsfrom the French Revolution to the interwar popular fronts, to Chinese and Vietnamese communismhave been at those times when nation and class, the unique and the universal, the concrete and the abstract, have been ostensibly joined. And, of course, the left in postwar Germany has lived with a very diffi cult relationship to its particular history and nation, as is apparent in the 1948 Grundgesetz, as well as in many of the Habermasian formulations of constitutional patriotism with which we have become familiar. If " constitutional patriotism " is to mean something more than or different from, say, civic nationalism, and if Verfassungspatriotismus is to signify more than just the specifi c legal-political life of the liberal-socialist phase of the Bonn Republic, it must offer something beyond mere resonance with one or more distinct nation-state histories. 1 It must somehow both accommodate and integrate them. To begin with, solidarities and collective identities, no matter how constructed, simply have not gone away. Even the hippest pre-9/11 postnationalists, such as Arjun Appadurai, had to claim that countries were " one node in a
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, 2002
The end of the Cold War in 1990 led many observers East and West to conclude that the major divid... more The end of the Cold War in 1990 led many observers East and West to conclude that the major divides in the world had been closed. The 75-year-old battle between revolution and stasis, and the 45-year-old battle between the two Empires and the two worlds, had come to a close. With closure on the Cold War, a number of things happened. One of them, of course, was the unification of Germany. No doubt, the unification, or re-unification, of Germany was one development that made possible the seminars in Leipzig and in Miami, which in turn provided the opportunity for the production of the work appearing in this volume. More specifically the Universities of Miami and Leipzig were able in the post-cold-war world to inaugurate a joint seminar that would have escaped them, and did escape them, in the preceding period. In the course of the German university reform and expansion of the 1990's, the University of Leipzig, often in the past a center of great learning in the sciences and social sciences, also expanded its law faculty and its law offerings. Likewise, but in a very different way, the University of Miami in the 1990's was able to develop from a provincial university with a few venues of excellence into a significant and serious research institution. The law school of the university is a significant beneficiary of that development. This dual development in Leipzig and in Miami made possible the introduction and popularity of the exchange seminar between the two faculties and their students. In May of 2001, faculty members and students from the University of Miami School of Law went to historic Leipzig to exchange views with German faculty members and students. That exchange was reciprocated in March of 2002 by a visit and discussion with members of the faculty and student body from Leipzig in sunny Miami. Those two occasions produced the papers presented in this volume. This is an
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2010
In today's liberal democracies, the “social question” and the “immigration question” have bec... more In today's liberal democracies, the “social question” and the “immigration question” have become entwined as rarely before. Elites and citizens alike ask who belongs to the national political and social community of the “we” and what belonging entails in the way of rights and obligations. Under the impact of unprecedented free mobility for both capital and labor and the crises of the social welfare state, the borders and bonds of citizenship have been changing, mostly weakening. This essay takes a preliminary look at how these two questions are intertwined in the United States, Germany, and Israel.
This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and conseq... more This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and consequences of its 2004 enlargement in particular. This enlargement is by far one of the greatest tests for the European Union and its institutions because the process of Europeanization is taking place in a variety of countries with diverse political cultures and dissimilar perceptions about the meaning and commitment to European integration. Given their differences in political and economic power, incumbent and new members are inevitably altering the functioning and character of the EU, a unique polity in the international system. Derived from this theoretical challenge, the chapters of this book suggest some explanations on six areas related to the 2004 enlargement: analytical approaches, citizens and identities, debates and regional transformations, external impacts, and the potential Turkey's membership. The articles included in this publication are the result of the academic initiative of the Miami European Union Center, partnership formed by the University of Miami and Florida International University since 2000, which was also selected by the European Commission as one of the ten European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States for the period 2005|2008.
This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and conseq... more This volume aims to contribute to the analysis of the EU in general and the background and consequences of its 2004 enlargement in particular. This enlargement is by far one of the greatest tests for the European Union and its institutions because the process of Europeanization is taking place in a variety of countries with diverse political cultures and dissimilar perceptions about the meaning and commitment to European integration.
Habermas and the public sphere I edited by Craig Calhoun. Thomas McCarthy p. cm.-(Studies in cont... more Habermas and the public sphere I edited by Craig Calhoun. Thomas McCarthy p. cm.-(Studies in contemporary German social thought) Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1999, Christian Joppke wrote Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Ger-many and... more In 1999, Christian Joppke wrote Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Ger-many and Great Britain, in which he showed that nation-states were resilient in their immigration policies and that sovereign-ty was still important. Although each country dealt with similar issues, ...
... The collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political economy and crisis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTO... more ... The collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political economy and crisis. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Abraham, David (b. 1946, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1981. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691093563 ). ...
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