Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State

By: Shlomo Ben-Ami, Y. Peled (Editor), A. Spektorowski (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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At the dawn of the third millennium, the most important form of political organization in the twentieth century, the nation-state, is coming under a great deal of pressure from restive ethnic groups that reside within its boundaries. The fourteen original essays in this volume analyse some of the challenges to the nation-state, and to modernity itself, posed by the revival of ethnic identities and ethnic conflicts. Issues such as multiculturalism, language policy, politicized religious fundamentalism and ethnic protest are examined theoretically from philosophical, political and sociological perspectives. These theoretical considerations are presented both in special theoretical essays and in the context of case studies pertaining to three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler states in America, Africa and the Middle East, and post-colonial states in Asia and Africa. Contributors to this volume come from leading universities in Israel, Europe and North America and from several academic disciplines: history, philosophy, political science, sociology and geography.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Collective Identity, Individual Freedom and the Modern State: Theoretical Considerations
Modernity and National Identity	p. 11
Towards the Rehabilitation of 'Nation-Building' and the Reconstruction of Nations	p. 42
Culture Is Not Enough: a Democratic Critique of Liberal Multiculturalism	p. 65
Ethnic Strife and the State in Western Europe
Catalan and Basque Nationalism: Contrasting Patterns	p. 95
Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Society in Germany	p. 108
The New Right and the Intellectual Elaboration of Ethnic Europe: from Racism to the Politics Of Differentialism	p. 117
Ethnic Challenges in Settler States
Minority Protest and the Emergence of Ethnic Regionalism: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli 'Ethnocracy'	p. 145
Nationalism and Non-Racialism in South Africa	p. 185
Rethinking Multinational Space: the Quebec Referendum and Beyond	p. 198
Modernity, Premodernity and the Political: the Neozapatistas of Southern Mexico	p. 221
Control and Resistance: Two Dimensions of Palestinians' Existence in Israel	p. 236
Ethnic Conflict in Post-Colonial Societies
The Resurgence of 'Ethnohinduism' - a Theoretical	p. 267
Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa	p. 294
Islamism and Democracy in Algeria	p. 309
Index	p. 330
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