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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Federalism and the Modern State - Friends or Foes? -- 2 Federalism, Freedom and Order -- Introduction -- Federalism as an instrument for the restriction of the
sphere of authority and the enlargement of the sphere of freedom -- Federalism as a road for overcoming the antinomy between freedom and order -- Conclusion -- 3 Federalism and Democracy -- Introduction -- Madison versus Althusius -- Federalism and democracy in the historical arenas of finished and unfinished political communities -- US federalism as an instrument for discouraging democracy -- Swiss demoicracy for given historic communities -- Federalism without democracy in Yugoslavia as one unfinished state -- Conclusion -- 4 Federalism and the Making of Nations -- Introduction: Nation, state and federalism -- The making of the US federal nation -- Federalism and the building of the German nation -- Swiss nation building beyond the civic versus ethnic model -- Conclusion -- 5 Federalism and the Challenge of Legitimacy -- Introduction: Modern state, legitimacy and federalism -- Vertical competence division in federal states -- US federation -- German federation -- Swiss federation -- Horizontal competence division in federal states -- US federation -- German federation -- Swiss federation -- Conclusion -- 6 The Challenge of Carl Schmitt
for the Theory and Practice of Federalism -- Introduction -- The concept of federation from the perspective of Carl Schmitt -- The federalist answer of Carl J. Friedrich to Schmitt's
anti-federalist challenge -- Schmitt's challenge and the practice of federalism -- Conclusion -- PART II An Attempt to Build European Federation in the Absence of Europeans -- 7 Federal Features of the European Union -- Introduction

The main idea behind this article is that in order to understand the meaning
that Kant?s political philosophy is rendered to by the given
socio-historical context of a community we need to turn for help to artistic
genius whose subjective ?I? holds a general feeling of the world and life.
It is in this sense that authors of great novels can help us in two ways.
First, their works summarise for our imagination artistic truth about man?s
capacity for humanity, the very thing that Kant considers to be the
scientifically improvable ?fact of reason?. Second, works of great writers
offer for our insight destinies of individuals who decide to pursue moral
dictate in a society, thus actualising the potential that lies hidden in all
of us, making us worthy of respect. As we lack objective scientific standard
of measurement, artist?s universal feeling of the world is impressed upon us
through a narrative about a man who, in a given society and in a given
moment, decides to exercise his autonomy and seek the divine in himself.
Contemporary social scientists? attempts to prove historical progress is
characterised by the very lack of humbleness. Referring to the great
novelists? works in this article is aimed to remind scientists of restraint
and self-control demanded from them by the citizen of Konigsberg.

Since the beginning of the European integration process until the present day the states have given up some significant elements of their sovereignty, transferring an increasing number of authorities to the European institutions. The extended framework within which the rules of the European game are determined also exerts a considerable impact on the regions as integral units of the present-day complex states. Politically & economically powerful regions are more & more independent in the contemporary European political & economic space. This has created a distorted picture of 'Europe of the regions' where the regions & European institutions will establish direct contacts, making the role of states superfluous. In this paper, the author endeavors to offer a theoretical, historical & philosophic frame for consideration of the attempts to overcome the antinomy of freedom & order both in the past & in the present, particularly analyzing the position & role of the regions in the European Union political & economic system. References. Adapted from the source document.

Since the beginning of the European integration process until the present day the states have given up some significant elements of their sovereignty transferring an increasing number of authorities to the European institutions. The extended framework within which the rules of the European game are determined also exerts a considerable impact on the regions as integral units of the present-day complex states. Politically and economically powerful regions are more and more independent in the contemporary European political and economic space. This has created a distorted picture of 'Europe of the regions' where the regions and European institutions will establish direct contacts, making the role of states superfluous. In this paper, the author endeavors to offer a theoretical historical and philosophic frame for consideration of the attempts to overcome the antinomy of freedom and order both in the past and in the present, particularly analyzing the position and role of the regions in the European Union political and economic system.