Original scientific paper

What Can We Learn from Lord Acton’s Criticism of Mill’s Concept of Nationality?

Zoran Kurelić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author discusses John Stuart Mill’s and Lord Acton’s conflicting
concepts of nationality. The article continues by introducing
contemporary approaches to the Mill – Acton debate by Will Kymlicka
and Elie Kedourie. The author opts for Kymlicka’s criticism of Mill’s liberal nationalism and rejects Kedourie’s argument that Mill and Acton share the same concept of nationality. In the third part, the author discusses the implications of the Mill – Acton debate in light of the processes of Croatia’s joining of the EU.

Keywords

nationalism; nationality; Mill; Acton; Kymlicka; Kedourie; EU

Hrčak ID:

20106

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/20106

Publication date:

31.5.2007.

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