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Constitutional Democracy in a Multicultural and Globalised World (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Constitutional Democracy in a Multicultural and Globalised World (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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After World War II, states transformed into 'collective fortresses'
in order to protect competing ideological systems. The debate on
post-modern statehood heavily built on ideological disputes between
liberalism and communism, over the nature of the economic and
social system, and the state and government that could sustain such
a system. What is an 'ideologically acceptable' state-concept;
which tasks and fu- tions should the state fulfil, and how to
legitimate not only democratic, but also authoritarian and even
totalitarian regimes? These questions were at the very centre of
state theory. However, after the fall of communism in Europe and
the former Soviet Union, the discourse of state and government
scholarship radically changed. The need for a profound shift in the
state paradigm was emerging. The time after 1989 seemed to proclaim
that the nation-state had lost its raison d'etre as an island of
undisputed and unlimited sovereignty. A globalised world order
broke open the 'fortress state' that developed within the tradition
of European constitutionalism. Given the simultaneous structural
changes to the nation-state's foundations, socio-economic and
political reforms going hand in hand with new constitutional
designs, the 'state in transition' started paving the way towards a
new state paradigm, and not only with regard to the states in the
process of de- cratic transformation from socialist into liberal
constitutional democracies."
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