LEGITIMATION THROUGH NATIONALISM IN THE CEAUSEȘCU REGIME

European Constitution: A Move from the Theological Legitimation of Political Regime

The author’s argument is that Europe must renounce Kant’s universalism and adopt political means in resolving its permanently conflictual situations. In that way it is to construct its new identity that stems neither from the divergent past of its members nor from their divergent perceptions of the future, but is being built in the politically active present. The European Union as a community s...

Managing Linguistic Nationalism through Constitutional Design: Lessons from South Asia

The Moral Significance of Nationalism

Nationalism in Settled Times

Due to a preoccupation with periods of large-scale social change, nationalism research had long neglected everyday nationhood in contemporary democracies. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to shift the focus of this scholarly field toward the study of nationalism not only as a political project but also as a cognitive, affective, and discursive category deployed in daily practice. Integrat...

Secure offline legitimation systems

rganizing the interdependencies within and between communities is one of the ongoing challenges of mankind. Once organizations are formed, companies run their businesses, and a legal system is in place, there is an urgent need for procedures to perform legally binding transactions. This in turn brings up the need for unforgeable documents or tokens of legitimation. Traditional examples are lett...