Original scientific paper
CENTER, PERIPHERY AND REGIONALlSM: A "HARD" EUROPEAN POSTMODERNITY
Vjeran Katunarić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
Regionalism is a new form of territorial autonomy in some western european
countries. It manifests rather long lasting tension in relations between center and
periphery, this time within nation-state. However, but, regionalism does not replicate
the goals and strength of the nationalistic movements, whereas it contributes to the
complexity of the modern nation-state. The range of actual regional autonomies
exceeds that of local and functional autonomy, but reaches shorter from
ethnonationalism and federation. Thus regionalism supplements the "postmodern"
nation-state. The latter becomes more heterogeneous from the former, modern
(unitarian, federal, and consociational) nation-state. Hence, despite new challenges
coming from internal and external processes of (dis)integration, the nation-state still
represents the strongest arrangement of political action and cultural identity of
(macro) society.
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32559
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Publication date:
1.9.1992.
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