Nolte, Georg; Aust, Helmut Philipp - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
The paper discusses recent propositions that forms of a European exceptionalism are now emerging. The paper first asks … what makes a political entity exceptionalist. For this purpose inspiration is sought in American exceptionalism as a model … speak of a European exceptionalism. The paper concludes that it is misleading to use the term European exceptionalism …