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Confronting the despair and disenfranchisement at the heart of contemporary democracy, Karma Nabulsi argues for the practical, regenerative power of republicanism, with its focus on active public engagement for the common good.

This article examines the 'Oath of Allegiance' of an international semisecret society, Young Europe. The society's programme defined the struggle to create democratic republics throughout Europe in the first half of the 19th century. Its founding documents and charter in 1834 represented radical shifts in both the ideas and practice of European republicans on the principles of liberty and equality, and in the conceptualization of a trinity that linked republican patriotism to both nationalism and internationalism. The society also offered new understandings of both fraternity and humanity. The doctrine combined the working of international and national organizations as the blueprint with which to construct republics. The emergence of Young Europe signified a change in both the ideological language and in the core values of republicans. It also represented a break in its organizational principles; in its conception of the nation and the nation's role within the republic; and in the appreciation of the international role of republicans.

Describes the Palestinian identity in terms of a "general will" of the people, as opposed to national characteristics, and how it functions in the largely refugee population, crosses borders, and works for justice, rights, democracy, and liberty.

AbstractThis article presents an interpretation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the general will through the example of the modern Palestinian predicament. 'Being Palestinian' focuses in particular on the continuing crisis of the Palestinian refugees of 1948, the Palestinian people being largely a refugee population. It discusses the mechanisms that express the general will for a stateless people, and demonstrates how particular political sentiments, negotiating positions, common understandings and political will are expressed, deliber-ated and understood within the Palestinian body politic, both across borders and within besieged national institutions.