TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baudet,Thierry
TI  - The significance of borders: why representative government and the rule of law require nation states 
SN  - 9789004228122
AV  - KZ4041 .B38 2012
U1  - 320.1 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - State, The
KW  - Nation-state
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - Multiculturalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and index; Preliminary Material -- The Rise of Borders: Introduction -- The State -- Sovereignty -- The Nation -- Conclusion -- The Assault on Borders: Introduction -- Supranational Courts -- Supranational Organizations -- Multiculturalism -- Conclusion -- The Need for Borders: Government -- The Fallacies of Universalism -- The Particularism of Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - For the Online Edition , please go to: : click here. For almost three-quarters of a century, the countries of Western Europe have abandoned national sovereignty as an ideal. Nation states are being dismantled: by supranationalism from above, by multiculturalism from below. This book explains why supranationalism and multiculturalism are in fact irreconcilable with representative government and the rule of law. It challenges one of the most central beliefs in contemporary legal and political philosophy, which is that borders are bound to disappear
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004228122
ER  -