Difference and democracy : exploring potentials in Europe and beyond / Kolja Raube, Annika Sattler, [editors] ; with Saskia Mestern.

Papers presented at a conference held at Hamburg in November 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Analytical Model -- The Concept of Difference / Christine Landfried -- 2.Difference and Democracy -- The Future of Democracy / Manfred G. Schmidt -- Comment: An Alternative View on Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation-State / Jonathan P. Aus -- Comment: Difference and Democracy from the Constitutional Law Perspective / Alexander von Brunneck -- Comment: The Sustainability of Democracy -- An Examination on the Basis of Leading Differences / Tine Stein -- 3.Difference and Europe -- Towards a Reflexive External Governance of the European Union / Kolja Raube -- Comment: The Concept of Difference and its Potential for Research in Political Science / Ingrid Schneider -- Comment: Small States and Differences in the European Union -- Putting Forward or Paralyzing the Integration? / Meinhard Hilf -- Comment: Reflections on the Concept of a Reflexive European Union External Governance / Chiara Formenti-Ujlaki -- 4.Difference and Globalization -- Thinking Islamic Difference in Pluralistic Democracies / Nilufer Gole -- Comment: The New Cosmopolitanism. The (Right) Way to Cope with Difference in a Globalizing Society / Edgar Grande -- Comment: The Troubles with Standardization of Cultural Differences / Rainer Tetzlaff -- Comment: Different Potentials of Difference in the Balkans -- A Paradigmatic Analysis / Fran Kauzlaric -- 5.Difference and Law -- Managing Difference: Constitutional Pluralism and Transnational Rights Protection / Alec Stone Sweet -- Comment: Contesting the Management of Difference -- Transnational Human Rights, Religion and the European Court of Human Rights' Lautsi Decision / Mattias Kumm -- Comment: Global Constitutionalism and the Concept of Difference / Antje Wiener -- Comment: Law, Difference and Transnational Norm Building Under a Shared Watercourse Treaty -- The International Court of Justice and Environmental Impact Statements / Jennifer McKay -- 6.Difference and Public Sphere -- Difference as Basic Component of Mediated Communication in (European) Public Spheres / Irene Neverla -- Comment: Public Spheres in Europe / Hartmut Kaelble -- Comment: Difference as Structural Characteristic and Catalyst of European Public Spheres / Annika Sattler -- Comment: Belonging and Engagement -- Benefits of Difference on European Union Issues in Europe's Public Spheres / Pieter de Wilde -- 7.Difference and Art -- Difference and Democracy: Art / Martin Warnke -- Comment: Difference Between Democracy and Art Beyond Visual Arts / Udo Bermbach -- Comment: Art is Difference...Even if this is no Longer Readily Perceptible / Petra Kipphoff von Huene -- Comment: Difference and Indifference Between Art Avant-Gardes and Democratic Politics / Klaus von Beyme -- 8.Conclusion -- Exploring Potentials of Difference in Europe and Beyond / Annika Sattler.