Vol. 21 · No. 3 · Issue 68 · Fall 2003

Hubertus Buchstein

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Abstract

Reflecting on his academic exile in the United States, the German political scientist Franz L. Neumann emphasized the cross-fertilization of ideas as a result of the confrontation of different scientific and political cultures. According to Neumann, the migration of hundreds of European academics to the United States led to a growing internationalization of the social sciences and a two-way learning process. The Europeans became accustomed to the practice of the American liberal democracy and learned to value its political culture; émigré scholars, on the other hand, brought with them a different academic Denkstil and contributed to a more critical self-under-standing of American democratic theory.