The Shifting Foundations Of Modern Nation States
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Author |
: S. N. Godfrey |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 66 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802083943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802083944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-states by : S. N. Godfrey
Nation-states today are under pressure from opposite directions. In Western Europe, they are being challenged by the call of assimilation into a larger supra-national polity. Elsewhere, as in Southeastern Europe, nation-states are being challenged by separatist forces from within, demanding independence or self-determination for particular ethnic groups. In either instance, the ultimate aim is not simply the breaking of bonds but rather a realignment of belonging. When the prospect of prosperity and the good life requires an adjustment of national identities and alliances, old myths and new tales alike are mobilized in the effort. People's choices of belonging are flexible and often blatantly pragmatic. Some will never renounce their original 'nation,' while others gladly assume two or three national identities in a lifetime, all of them with a deeply felt commitment. In The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States, Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger have gathered together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of authors to discuss national myths from Europe, North America, and Asia. Just as the plurality of nations implies diverse voices and distinct narratives, the authors, coming from different disciplines and backgrounds, represent multiple discourses on the theme of nationhood.
Author |
: Wilbur Zelinsky |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 487 |
Release |
: 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469610313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469610310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nation Into State by : Wilbur Zelinsky
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author |
: Alexander C. Diener |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2012-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199912650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199912653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Borders: A Very Short Introduction by : Alexander C. Diener
Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the idea of an imminent borderless world, underscoring the impact borders have on a range of issues, such as economic development, inter- and intra-state conflict, global terrorism, migration, nationalism, international law, environmental sustainability, and natural resource management. Diener and Hagen demonstrate how and why borders have been, are currently, and will undoubtedly remain hot topics across the social sciences and in the global headlines for years to come. This compact volume will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students, including geographers, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, international relations and law experts, as well as lay readers interested in understanding current events.
Author |
: John D. Kerkering |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2024-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108841894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108841899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics by : John D. Kerkering
This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.
Author |
: Graham K. Brown |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 609 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781006313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781006318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States by : Graham K. Brown
ÔThe Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States is an impressive volume. Its distinguished contributors offer a rich menu of courses, ranging from conflict and war to peacemaking, transitional justice, peacekeeping, and powersharing. Encyclopedic in its scope, the volume encompasses many different approaches to stimulate and provoke the careful reader. It serves up a feast for scholars and policymakers alike.Õ Ð Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University, US The Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary group of internationally renowned scholars on such important issues as the causes of violent conflicts and state fragility, the challenges of conflict resolution and mediation, and the obstacles to post-conflict reconstruction and durable peace-building. While other companion volumes exist, this detailed and comprehensive book brings together an unrivalled range of disciplinary perspectives, including development economists, quantitative and qualitative political scientists, and sociologists. Topical chapters include; Post-Conflict and State Fragility, Ethnicity, Human Security, Poverty and Conflict, Economic Dimensions of Civil War, Climate Change and Armed Conflict, Rebel Recruitment, Education and Violent Conflict, Obstacles to Peace Settlements and many others. With detailed and comprehensive coverage, this Handbook will appeal to postgraduate and undergraduate students, policymakers, researchers and academics in conflict and peace studies, international relations, international politics and security studies.
Author |
: Annemarie H. Sammartino |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2014-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801471193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801471192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impossible Border by : Annemarie H. Sammartino
Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new Polish state, Russian émigrés poured into the German capital, and East European Jews sought protection in Germany from the upheaval in their homelands. Nor was the movement in one direction only: German Freikorps sought to found a soldiers' colony in Latvia, and a group of German socialists planned to settle in a Soviet factory town. In The Impossible Border, Annemarie H. Sammartino explores these waves of migration and their consequences for Germany. Migration became a flashpoint for such controversies as the relative importance of ethnic and cultural belonging, the interaction of nationalism and political ideologies, and whether or not Germany could serve as a place of refuge for those seeking asylum. Sammartino shows the significance of migration for understanding the difficulties confronting the Weimar Republic and the growing appeal of political extremism. Sammartino demonstrates that the moderation of the state in confronting migration was not merely by default, but also by design. However, the ability of a republican nation-state to control its borders became a barometer for its overall success or failure. Meanwhile, debates about migration were a forum for political extremists to develop increasingly radical understandings of the relationship between the state, its citizens, and its frontiers. The widespread conviction that the democratic republic could not control its "impossible" Eastern borders fostered the ideologies of those on the radical right who sought to resolve the issue by force and for all time.
Author |
: Kathleen Canning |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2010-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845458461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 184545846X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects by : Kathleen Canning
In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser’s state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.
Author |
: H Patrick Glenn |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 3772 |
Release |
: 2013-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191504983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019150498X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cosmopolitan State by : H Patrick Glenn
For more than two centuries the idea of the nation-state has been widespread. The expression is now widely used and is even to be unavoidable. The 'nation-state' implies that the population of a state should be homogenous in terms of language, religion, and ethnicity; the nation and the state should coincide. However history demonstrates that there never has been, and there never will be, a nation-state. Human diversity is manifest in states of all sizes, locations, and origins. This wide-ranging book argues that there should be no regret in the recognition of this empirical reality, since the notion of a nation-state has been the justification for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Since the nation-state is impossible, all states are cosmopolitan in character. They are cosmopolitan regardless of the language of their constitutions or official teaching and regardless of the extent to which they officially recognize their own diversity. The most successful states are those which are most successful in their own forms of cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitan ways are infinitely varied, however, and must be sought in the intricate workings of individual states. The cosmopolitan character of states is necessarily reflected in their law. The main instruments of legal cosmopolitanism have been those of common laws, constitutionalism, and what is best described as institutional cosmopolitanism. The relative importance of these legal instruments has changed over time but all three have been constantly operative, even in times of attempted national and territorial closure. All three remain present in the contemporary cosmopolitan state, understood in terms of cosmopolitan citizens, cosmopolitan sources and cosmopolitan thought. The cosmopolitan state is, moreover, the only appropriate conceptualization of the state in a time of globalization. This book outlines the subtlety of the law of cosmopolitan states, law which has survived through periods of nationalism and which provides the working methods for the reconciliation of diverse populations. Combining law, history, political science, political philosophy, international relations, and the new logics, it demonstrates that the idea of the nation-state has failed and should yield to an understanding of the state as necessarily cosmopolitan in character. This will be invaluable reading to all those interested in constitutional law, international law, and political theory.
Author |
: Penelope Cheryl Gurstein |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802091192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802091199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Learning Civil Societies by : Penelope Cheryl Gurstein
This collection explores the theoretical underpinnings of democratic planning and governance in relation to civil society formation and social learning.
Author |
: Cornelia Wilhelm |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2016-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785333286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785333283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Migration, Memory, and Diversity by : Cornelia Wilhelm
Within Germany, policies and cultural attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the difficult legacies of the Second World War and its aftermath. This wide-ranging volume explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today, showing how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh, and identifying the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification. It provides invaluable context for understanding contemporary Germany’s unique role within regional politics at a time when an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees present the European community with a significant challenge.