Germany for German persons and German ways, it insists. We need nothing more culturally specific than this process to make a nation-state work. Accordingly, republican States can welcome and integrate immigrants from many different backgrounds, and the States can comfortably work with other republican States to solve global problems. There is no such thing as a common good or public values-and governments should be barred from acting on any such goals, because the idea of a common good quickly leads to restrictions on individual liberty. We might then imagine a continuum of possibilities here, with ethnonationalism at one end, liberalism at the other, and republicanism in the middle.
Republicanism blends both worlds.
But on the other hand, like liberalism, republicanism worries about the risk of orthodoxy. In addition, individuals must have a variety of rights to ensure their equal and effective participation in that dialogue. In short, neorepublicanism is a blend of somewhat discordant elements-it possesses no ideological purity. If your chief fear is revived ethnonationalism, if the specter that haunts you is violence by neo-Nazi skinheads, then the virtue of neorepublicanism is that it promises tolerance for difference. You might adopt it as a model to thin out your country's overly robust public dialogue.