Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Hoffmann Leif
    Becoming Exceptional? American and European Exceptionalism and their Critics: A Review
    in Europe en formation (L') , n. 359, spring, 2011 ,  2011 ,  83-105
    Systematic comparisons between the EU and the US have largely been discouraged due to the fact that American exceptionalism and the European Union being sui generis were taken for granted. A reversal of this trend, however, has recently taken place with comparisons between both polities having become more common and accepted in the scholarly community. More scholars have noted that while the two polities might be exceptional in comparison with the European nation-states, they are less so when compared to each other. This article therefore reviews the arguments why the EU and the United States of America have been treated as sui generis in the past and the emergent literature on the comparability of the two polities and some of the new research results developing from it.
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