Nolte, Georg; Aust, Helmut Philipp - 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 … plausible to speak of a European exceptionalism. The paper concludes that it is misleading to use the term "European …