Nationalism is back, and it is again becoming, in the 21st century, the most powerful and perhaps most destructive force of our time. Among different current versions and examples of nationalism, the case of Germany stands out for well-known historical reasons. While after the Second World War, German nationalism was restrained and the country became well-embedded in the European Community, this book argues that, since 1990, both the Germans themselves and the citizens of fellow Member States of the European Union have been severely affected by the reemergence of a certain German nationalism based on a romanticised cultural and ethnic vision of national community that hampers the further development of the European Project. The author showcases this phenomenon through his detailed analysis of different milestones in the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court in highly political and contested cases such as the Maastricht, Lisbon and PSPP rulings.
Antonio López - Pina is Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law and Jean Monnet Chair of European Legal Culture, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. In Spain's Constituent Courts of 1977-1978, he was a member of the Constitutional Commission of the Senate. Between 1983 and 1991, he was a Member of the Privy Council.His numerous publications in German, Italian, English and Russian, as well as in Spanish, document his interest in comparative constitutional law in Germany, Spain, France, England and Italy; his specialisation in analysing European law and his strong commitment to a European federal Union that protects its citizens; his elaboration of a theory of the Spanish constitution from the perspective of the mandate of the public interest as well as his analysis of the processing of the history and of the cultural dynamics of Spanish democratisation; and his interest in "eccentric intelligence", as the term is used by John Stuart Mill. He has been awarded the Medal of Constitutional Merit, the Bundesverdienstkreuz and Italy's Commendatore dell' Ordine della Stella.
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