Research Catalog

Title

• Citizenship in America and Europe : beyond the nation-state? / Michael S. Greve and Michael Zöller, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Greve, Michael S.
• Zöller, Michael, 1946-

Description

x, 261 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• In a globalizing, post-9/11 world, it is more important than ever to understand the future of citizenship and the nation-state. In essays that range from the pragmatic to the theoretical, from the historical to the personal, Citizenship in America and Europe sheds light on these crucial issues. (Publisher).
• In this volume, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic consider how the concepts of citizenship affect debates over immigration and assimilation, tolerance and minority rights, and national cohesion and civic culture. The authors explore the notion of "constitutional patriotism," which seeks to establish principles of citizenship in a middle ground between cosmopolitanism and nationalism; the theoretical and practical questions of citizenship, including the complexities surrounding the legal status of citizenship in the European Union and the United States; the challenges of making EU citizenship "complementary" with national citizenship; and the issue of competing allegiances to home states and the European Union. Finally, the authors examine the centrality of rights, and the challenges of conflicting rights claims, in contemporary conceptions of citizenship. To what extent - if at all - should citizens' rights and duties change as the nation-state itself changes?
• Traditional notions of citizenship are linked to the idea of the democratic nation-state, a sovreign entity capable of defending itself against foreign and domestic enemies. But these notions have become increasingly problematic as the very concept of nation-state is challenged, not only by ethnic and religious conflicts, but also by increased global mobility and the political integration of nation-states into international organizations - most prominently, the European Union. Will the concept of citizenship as we know it survive the decline of the nation-state?

Subject

• Citizenship > Europe
• Citizenship > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : citizenship on two continents / Michael S. Greve and Michael Zöller -- Verfassungspatriotismus : wrong concept, right country / Josef Joffe -- The meaning of American citizenship: what we can learn from disputes over naturalization / William Galston -- European citizenship: mobile nationals, immobile aliens, and random Europeans / Francesca Strumia -- "We the citizens of Europe" : European Union citizenship / Markus Kotzur -- A conversation: the public and political debate in Europe and the United States / Jürgen Kaube, Robert von Rimscha, Martin Klingst, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Peter Skerry -- European citizenship: treaties and case law of the European Court of Justice / Jean-Claude Bonichot -- Citizenship, alienage, and personhood in the United States / Diane P. Wood -- Three models of citizenship / Peter H. Schuck -- The changing nature of citizenship in Britain : constitutional and legal perspectives / Adam Tomkins -- Structural constitutional principles and rights reconciliation / Robert R. Gasaway and Ashley C. Parrish -- Concluding remarks / Kenneth W. Starr.

ISBN

• 9780844743103
• 0844743100

LCCN

^^2009028119

OCLC

406154175

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library