Was wird aus dem Staat? Für diese die Allgemeine Staatslehre wie die Politikwissenschaft zunehmend beschäftigende Leitfrage geben die englisch, französisch, deutsch oder spanisch abgefaßten Kongreßbeiträge der Tagung der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie von 1993 vielfältige Anregungen. Inhalt: Part I. Nature and Typology of the State: Peter Lewisch: Toward a Contractarian Reconstruction of the State (16-24); Raphael A. Akanmidu: The State as a Moral Institution (25-33); Adam Lopatka: The Criteria of the Evaluation of States (34-38); Dietmar v. d. Pfordten: Individuen, Assoziationen, Staatsorganisation (39-58). Part II. Democracy: Aleksander Peczenik: A Conception of Democracy (59-61); Michael Arthur Simon: Law, Democracy and Majority Rule (62-68); Jose Rubio Carracedo: From Democracy to Corporatism. Genealogy of a Historical Frustration (69-78); David Francis Tucker: On Reading the Constitution: Why Laurence Tribe and Michael Dorf Are Wrong About the Ninth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (79-87); Raphael Cohen-Almagor: Disqualification of Lists in 1988 and 1992: A Comparative Analysis (88-103); Stanley S. Kleinberg: Democracy and Freedom Speech (104-112). Part III. Nationality and Citizenship: Bernard P. Dauenhauer: Norms for Naturalizing Citizens (113-121); Miroslav Prokopijevic: Secession: What Matters? (122-132); Philippe Gérard: Communauté nationale et démocratie (133-138); Stephen C. Hicks: Citizenship and the Modern Legal Theory of the State (139-145); Dominique Leydet: Recognition and Pluralism: A Criticism of Taylor (146-154); Peter Loptson: Hobsbawm, Nationalism and the End of History (155-161). Part IV. Sovereignty: F. Javier Ezquiaga Ganuzas: Los conceptos de soberiana y autodeterminacion a la luz del derecho al desarollo (162-169); James M. Cooper: The Challenge to the State in International Law (170-176); Monique Weyl / Roland Weyl: Nation, nationalité, Etat et Droit des peuples à disposer d’eux-mêmes (177-180). Part V. Europe: Barbara de Smith: The Making of an Ought out of an Is: The United Kingdom - the Constitution and the Challenge of Europe (181-187); Ian Ward: Kant and the Transnational Order: A European Perspective (188-196); Marcelino Ridrigez Molinero: The Principles of Subsidiarity and European Community (197-201); Wayne J. Norman: The Morality of Federalism and the European Community (202-211).