Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of Sovereignty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780876091562)

A work entitled Nation Against State could be expected to address religion, culture, language, and the roots of nationalism. I wish to advise the reader that this book turns in a different direction; it develops instead innovative approaches for contending with brutal conflicts waged in the name of nationhood. The prevailing doctrines of statecraft currently invoked in efforts to check these conflicts evolved in an age when the scourge of war arose between states rather than within them. The basic conflicts that now threaten international peace have little in common with those that arose during the heyday of fascism and communism, when the nation-state reigned supreme. The dominant norms of international law and diplomacy are ill adapted to coping with the kind of strife that has erupted in Yugoslavia and in the Caucasus and that could become common elsewhere in Eurasia.

Author: Gidon Gottlieb,Gildon Gottlieb,Gideon Gottlieb
ISBN-10: 0876091567
ISBN-13: 9780876091562
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/20/1993