Boris Slijper

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Introduction Since the events of “9/11,” the debate in most Western countries on multicultural democracy has intensified. Key terms in this debate are terrorism; violence; Islam; democratic values; and commitment to democratic institutions. In the Netherlands, the fall of the World Trade Center towers resulted in an extensive public debate on the p...

Since the early 1990s, issues such as the steady influx of immigrants and the problems of the social integration of these newcomers have been the subject of fierce public debates in many Western European countries. Thus in 1991 the Netherlands saw its first national minorities debate, and some 10 years later, many a politician and opinion-maker con...

Inleiding In de afgelopen tien jaar is in disciplines als de ethiek, de rechtsfilosofie en de politieke filosofie het vraagstuk van de multiculturele samenleving één van de meest populaire onderwerpen geworden. Wanneer men de politiek-filosofische discussie van de afgelopen tien jaar in kaart tracht te brengen, kan men drie thema's onderscheiden. H...