The Fate of the Nation-stateMichel Seymour McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 - 441 pages Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state of the art analyses of the situation of the nation-state as it is developing all over the world in the new millennium. There are different concepts of nationhood and different forms of national consciousness: ethnic, civic, cultural, socio-political and diasporic. There are also different ways for nations to be present on any given territory; as immigrant groups, as extensions of neighbouring national majorities, as minority nations or as majority nations. There are also different policies adopted toward different groups: bilingualism, multiculturalism, interculturalism, collective rights, etc. Finally, there are different sorts of political arrangements: nation-state, multination state, confederation of sovereign states, multinational federation, federation of nation-states, supranational institutions, etc. The enormous complexity of these issues explain why nations, nationalism and nation-states have been so difficult to understand. The theoretical essays contained in this volume are sensitive to all those issues. The authors examine the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model. They also reflect upon the nation building policies, politics of recognition and issues related to globalization. The case studies investigate countries or regions such as Ireland, Scotland, Catalonia, the Balkans, Russia, USA, Finland, India, Indonesia, the European Union and Canada. |
Table des matières
Acknowledgments ix | 3 |
Is Modernity Possible without Nationalism? | 38 |
Four Kinds of Postnationbuilding | 51 |
The Nationstate and Aboriginal Selfdetermination | 90 |
From Ethical Individualism | 105 |
Rawls and Habermas on International | 130 |
Are Nationstates Obsolete? The Challenge of Globalization | 153 |
Global Decency | 173 |
Lessons Learned Options Ahead | 247 |
Understanding Indigenous Nationalism | 271 |
Linguistic Rights for U S Hispanics | 295 |
The Majorityminority Syndrome and Muslim Personal | 327 |
Ethnicity Migration and Statehood in PostCold War Europe | 357 |
The Future of Indonesia | 375 |
The Future of the Nationstate and QuebecCanada Relations | 390 |
The Rights and Obligations of Persons | 403 |
Civic Nationalism and the Northern Ireland Conflict | 194 |
The Scottish Question | 214 |
A Nonsecessionist Nationalism? | 234 |
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