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The paper discusses pro-nationalist authors (D. Miller, A. Oldenquist, M. Canovan) who claim that states formed around a particular ethnocultural nation have been historically successful, in terms of economic success, justice, democracy, & solidarity. It is argued that their claims fail: in typical & well-known cases there is an inverse correlation between the strength of nationalism & the satisfaction of demands of justice, democracy, & solidarity. Some hypotheses about the causes for this inverse relation are proposed. 12 References. Adapted from the source document.

This edited book examines the growing worldwide phenomenon of civilizational populism in democratic nation-states and brings together research that explores this in a wide variety of religious, political, and geographic contexts. In doing so, the book shows how, from Europe to India and Pakistan, and from Indonesia to the Americas, populists increasingly define national belonging through civilizational identity, claiming that the world can be divided into several religion-defined civilizations with incompatible values. The volume also discusses the complex relationship between civilizational populism, democracy and nationalism and shows how nationalists often use civilizational identity to help define ingroups and outgroups within their society. With this, the book investigates the salience of the concept, its widespread and influential nature, and also explains how populists construct civilizational identities, and the factors behind the rise of civilizational populism. Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has been working on religion and politics in majority and minority contexts, nation-building, citizenship, securitization, populism, authoritarianism, and digital authoritarianism.

Changing conceptions of self-government and majority rule in a global society with increasing awareness of ethnic divisions; 14 articles.

WHAT FOLLOW ARE LESS 'THESES' THAN 'CONJECTURES', speculations both tentative and disjointed. Like a mathematician's conjectures, however, they admit of being systematically ordered into a larger theory as well as being elaborated more fully, one-by-one. Here I shall, without elaboration, at least sketch the outlines of that larger theory.The general tenor of all these conjectures is to query an ethos, prevailing for the past two centuries or more, effectively encapsulated in the slogan, 'Every state a nation, every nation a state'. Starting with the American and Latin American revolutions and continuing through the twentieth century's own wars of national liberation, the continuing motif has been one of freeing 'a People' from 'alien rule'. Champions of 'political unification', from Mazzini's Italy to Kohl's Germany, have likewise taken as their rallying cry the uniting of a single people under a single government. That is the 'every nation a state' side of the story.

Focuses on the complex interactions between states and transnational corporations and on the role of regionally integrated economic blocs in the global economy.