The Voice of Exit - Towards a Theory of Democratic Inconsistency‪.‬

INTRODUCTION Discussing the relationship between Immigration and Liberal Democracy, Fukuyama (1) identifies the Western responses to the challenges of fundamentalism as being justified into two categories: "...the solution lies either in walling off the United States and other target countries, or else ... going over there [certain Muslim countries] to fix the problem at its roots by deposing dictators and promoting democracy (1)". Acknowledging the integration of immigrants from Muslim countries as citizens of pluralistic democracies, as the crucial and longer-term challenge for the liberal democracy and due to the demographical characteristics of the immigrant population and the nature of the European welfare states, Fukuyama identifies Europe as the battleground for the confrontation between radical Islamism and liberal democracy.