Original scientific paper
How Successful is Nation-State?
Nenad Miščević
; Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
The paper discusses pro-nationalist authors (D. Miller, A. Oldenquist, M.Canovan) who claim that states formed around a particular ethno-cultural nation have been historically sucessful, in terms of economic success, justice, democracy and solidarity. It is argued that their claims fail: in typical and wellknown cases there is an inverse correlation between the strenght of nationalism and the satisfaction of demands of justice, democracy and solidarity. Some hypotheses about the causes for this inverse relation are proposed.
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Hrčak ID:
26749
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Publication date:
25.2.2001.
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