Is Liberal Nationalism Incompatible With Global Democracy?

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ID23174459
AuthorsHelder De Schutter (0000-0002-2031-984X, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Ronald Tinnevelt (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume40
Issue1
Pages109-130
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMetaphilosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-1068 • E-ISSN: 1467-9973
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01563.x
OpenAlexW2171823501
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited24

To respond to globalization‐related challenges, many contemporary political theorists have argued for forms of democracy beyond the level of the nation‐state. Since the early 1990s, however, political theory has also witnessed a renewed normative defense of nationhood. Liberal nationalists have been influential in claiming that the state should protect and promote national identities, and that it is desirable that the boundaries of national and political units coincide. At first glance, both positions—global democracy and nationalism—seem to contradict each other. We do not share this oppositional picture. Developing a more harmonic picture of nationalist ideals and cosmopolitan visions is the aim of this essay.

Cosmopolitanism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global justice · Globalization · Liberal democracy · Nationalism · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vision · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions · Turkey's Politics and Society

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