Bulletin n. 1/2005
December 2005
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
    • Koch Guido
    Nation und Nationalismus bei Meinecke
    in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 15. Jahrgang (2005), Heft 2 ,  2005 ,  419-445
    Friedrich Meinecke's distinction between a civic and an ethnic nation is frequently used in public discourse on nationalism as well as in academic research. In recent usage, however, the two types are opposed in a biased way - open vs. closed, peaceful vs. aggressive - so that rereading Meinecke offers an instructive view of the concept of nation which is now concealed. It can be demonstrated that Meinecke had a complex understanding of both the liberal nation and the ideology of nationalism. Public opposition to religious headscarves, for example, gives rise to the supposition that the German nation could learn from Meinecke to understand itself not only as ethnic but also as civic. Last not least, Meinecke's individualism covers a drift from national towards cosmopolitan thinking as can be experienced to some degree in the process of European unification.
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