Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood

The Birth of Self-Determination
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-22832-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 199 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity

Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation – most commonly understood as a linguistic community – is entitled to its own state.

Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination of the peculiarly modern concurrence of cultural nations and political states as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author argues that this is one of the most fateful coincidences of modernity: so firmly engraved in today's consciousness that most scholars and policymakers assume the correlation of cultural nationhood and political statehood to be intellectually unproblematic, yet the consequences have been overwhelming. The conflation of cultural nation and political state has imposed an isomorphism of language, culture, and politics upon the world. It has pre-determined democratic practice by enforcing the doctrine that the will of the people can only be the will of a people. It has led to the assumption that every nation may become a state. The book’s originality lies in tracing the genesis and the elaboration over time of this curious contemporary assumption.

This thought-provoking book offers an unconventional perspective on the development of nationalism and world history. It will be relevant for upper-level students, scholars, and researchers of European history, nationalism, and self-determination.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liebich, André

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Must Nations Become States? 2. Nationalism and the French Revolution 3. Ideological Currents 1815–1830 4. Czartoryski and the Case for Polish Statehood 5. Mazzini and the Italian Road to Universal Nationhood 6. The Principle of Nationality 7. Germany 8. The Principle of Nationality, Again 9. From the Principle of Nationality to Self-Determination 10. Czechoslovakia 11. Nations and States since 1945 12. Conclusion: An Issue Unresolved

Über Autor(innen)

André Liebich is Honorary Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, where he was Professor of International History and Politics from 1989 to 2013. He was also Visiting Professor at the Global Studies Institute at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and has held many visiting fellowships. He has written widely on political theory, European history, minorities, citizenship, and nationalism, with particular reference to Eastern Europe.