In Defense of Liberal Nationalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3215532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lind (0000-0003-1095-0336, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 87 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20046660 |
| OpenAlex | W2557524237 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
simple idea that every nation should have its own state?accompanied by the corollary that one ethnic or cultural group should not collectively rule over another?has been the most power ful political force of the past two hundred years. While particular nationalisms vary, this basic nationalist conception of an ideal world order has been remarkably unchanged for well over a century. The world should be split into as many states as humanity is divided into nations/' the Swiss international lawyer Johann Caspar Bluntschli wrote in 1870. Each nation a state, each state a national being. When he wrote, nationalism as a considered doctrine, with its roots in the thought of Rousseau, Herder, Fichte and Mazzini, was already generations old. National sentiments, of course, long predated the doctrine, despite recent attempts to claim that national feelings are purely modern fabrications. nationalist ideal has survived one universalist assault after another: the Concert of Europe, which Metternich saw as a way of repressing anti-dynastic nationalism and republicanism; Hitlers supranational racist imperialism; the doomed Soviet effort to replace national loyalties with commitment to socialist universalism. Even the failure of the European Community to become a genuine federal
Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
What is Rossia
Divided they stand lessons about partition from Iraq and Lebanon
Does Democratization Enhance or Reduce Taiwan's Security? A Democratic-Peace Inquiry
Intervention in communal conflicts
Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics
The Ethics of Nationalism
The Ethics of Secession as the Regulation of Secessionist Politics
Liberal Nationalism and Secession
National Self-Determination and Secession
Self‐Determination in Practice
Normative Justifications for Liberal Nationalism
Global Politics at the Turn of the Millennium
Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments
Ethnic and political identities and territorialities in the post-Soviet space
Victors, Villains and Victims
Reinterpreting the Past or Asserting the Future? National History and Nations in Peril - The Case of the Tibetan Nation
Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands
Development
Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars
Debating Secession and the Recognition of New States in Africa
Austria Neglecta
Nationalism and political support
Rethinking the new world order
As go the baltics, so goes Europe
The Jewish question revisited
National identity and democratic trajectories
Internal War
Insufficiently liberal and insufficiently nationalist
What is Nationalism Really? Understanding the Limitations of Rigid Theories in Dealing with the Problems of Nationalism and Ethnonationalism
Libéralisme et nationalisme
The holy land divided
Apartheid cartography
La revanche des petites nations
Who Belongs
Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism
Interstate Relations and the Sociological Imagination Revisited
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |