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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of "transnational citizenship" from the perspective of contemporary Europe. This title argues for the democratization of how immigrants and minorities in general are treated by the modern democratic state, and the need to reinvent what it means to be a citizen in an increasingly multicultural, diversified world.
Trade Review"Balibar tackles a wide range of themes associated with a dialectic of the construction of 'Europe.' ... The writing is clear, informed, and provocative."--Choice "There is much merit to this book as a work of political philosophy, inasmuch as it provides new analyses of the concept of sovereignty and develops new ideas about the nature of citizenship under post-modern conditions."--Gustav Peebles, Political Science Quarterly
Table of ContentsPREFACE vii 1 At the Borders of Europe 1 2 Homo nationalis: An Anthropological Sketch of the Nation-Form 11 Droit de cite or Apartheid? 31 4 Citizenship without Community? 51 5 Europe after Communism 78 6 World Borders, Political Borders 101 7 Outline of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence 115 8 Prolegomena to Sovereignty 133 9 Difficult Europe: Democracy under Construction 155 10 Democratic Citizenship or Popular Sovereignty? Reflections on Constitutional Debates in Europe 180 11 Europe: Vanishing Mediator? 203 NOTES 237 INDEX 283
