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Democracy and politics of difference: Through the prism of current situation

Petkovska Sanja

The problems of difference and identity are articulated in the form of a dispute starting with the establishment of liberal democracies and becoming more and more intense: a dispute about the way the political community is established and defended in connection to the issue of relation between the individual being and the collective. The paper analyzes the latest reflections of European policy to the problem of differences and the likelihood of thesis about the end of multiculturalism heard after the security conference in Munich to be relevant, by the explanation of the genesis of the problem and a review of offered solutions. Additionally, paper explains the notion of modern state by the principles of citizenship and nation in relation to the questions of identity and difference, with special accent on concepts of neutrality and tolerance as a key spots is this debate. In conclusion, paper sums up the reasons why the gap problem can not easily be overcome and how discursive democracy can potentially be a different future focus of the dispute.

Keywords: Politics of difference, pluralism, the citizenship principle, nationalism, tolerance and discursive democracy