Nationalism and the Multination State

✍ Scribed by Alain Dieckhoff

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this hypothesis with the rise of independence movements in Europe (in
Scotland and Flanders) and the persistence of claims to nationhood the world over (for example, in Kurdistan and Tibet).

A dual perspective informs Dieckhoff's analysis: to understand the hidden social and cultural underpinnings of post-Cold War identity dynamics, from Kosovo to Catalonia and from Flanders to Corsica, and to examine how societies can meet the challenge of national pluralism. Finding liberalism,
republicanism and multiculturalism unequal to this task, he argues that only by building 'multi-nation' democratic states can the issues be properly addressed and secessions prevented.

Contemporary liberal discourse often treats nationalism as an archaic aberration - as a primitive form of tribalism astray in the modern world. Dieckhoff's sensitive and clear-headed analysis shows why nationalism is in fact a fundamental facet of modernity, which must be dealt with as such by
states vulnerable to breakup.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of contents
Title Pages
Dedication
Foreword
1. Nationalism and Globalization
2. The Nation as a Community of Culture
3. Culture, a State Affair
4. The Appeal of Nationalism?
5. The Imperfect Trinity
6. Self-Determination without Territory
7. Territorial Autonomy
8. The Secessionist Temptation
9. The Future of Pluralism
Appendix Summary of Methods for Managing National Diversity
Names
Notions and Themes