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  • European exceptionalism?

  • GEORG NOLTE, HELMUT PHILIPP AUST
  • Journal:
    Global Constitutionalism / Volume 2 / Issue 3 / November 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 September 2013, pp. 407-436

  • The paper discusses recent propositions that, after a period of ‘American exceptionalism’, forms of ‘European exceptionalism’ are now emerging. The paper first asks what makes a political entity ‘exceptionalist’. For this purpose inspiration is sought in the defining features of ‘American exceptionalism’. The paper then discusses whether ‘Europe’ displays comparable features in the fields of international legal policy and domestic rights culture. It also asks whether there are other aspects of European governance which could make it plausible to speak of a European exceptionalism. The paper concludes that it is misleading to use the term ‘European exceptionalism’ because the underlying phenomena are not comparable with what is usually understood as ‘American exceptionalism’.