Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation Biggar Nigel
Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation Biggar Nigel The nation-state is here to stay. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national nationalisms a new lease of…
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Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation Biggar Nigel
The nation-state is here to stay. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national nationalisms a new lease of life, confirming the viability of small nation-states under a supra-national umbrella - after all, if Ireland and Iceland, then why not Scotland and Catalonia? Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states.
Surely humanity, not a nation, And then the world stage has seen new and powerful national players moving from the wings to the centre: China, India, and Brazil are full of a sense of growing into their own national destinies and are in no mood either to dissolve into, or to defer to, some larger body.Nations, nationalisms, and nation-states are persistent facts, but what should we think of them morally?