Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199275342)

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of sovereignty and of the state itself to meet the twin challenges of recognition of nationality and of democracy. Drawing on the experience of four plurinational state - United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - and of the European Union, he analyses the challenges of plurinationalism and its recognition.

Author: Michael Keating
ISBN-10: 0199275343
ISBN-13: 9780199275342
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2005
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d