Kollektive Erwählung und Souveräne Gleichheit
Collectiva election and sovereign equality

Summary/Abstract: Certain elements of - widespread in Europa until the beginning of the 20. century - convictions for be collectively (nationally) elected can still be seen today in US foreign policy. The article tries to qualify the phenomenon, looking at it from the perspective of its adressees. While the principle of sovereign equality due to several cases of legally sanctioned inequality can hardly be used as a means of defense, for two other reasons there is ground for calmness in face of ideas of collective election: at first all those ideas will, as will any mythic ally founded narration, sooner or later disappear, especially, as they are regularly tied to phases of power expansion. Secondly, some changes in today's international politics - especially a progressing tendency towards regulation - increasingly impede the most painful expressions of collective election.

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