1. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, trans. By Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 9, 10–11.
2. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovenovich, 1979), p.291.
3. I have dealt with some of these issues more extensively in: Seyla Benhabib, „Strange Multiplicities: The Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context,“ The Divided Self: Identity and Globalization, Publication of Macalester International, vol. 4 (Spring 1997), pp. 27–59.
4. There is a growing literature on the new dialectis of ,globalization‘ and ,fragmentation‘. See Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld. How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World (New York, 1995);
5. Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging. Journeys into the New Nationalism (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1994);