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No 9	Symposium: Nationalism and Self-Determination
Publication (Journal)	New Politics (New Series) (summer 1993): 97-148
Published in	USA, 1993
Language	English
Abstract	A symposium on national independence and self-determination in postcommunist countries. In 'Self-Determination and War: The Case of Yugoslavia', Branka Magas discusses the origins of the Yugoslavian conflict and blames the "left" in Europe for defending Yugoslavia against its secessionist republics. In 'Nationalism: Barrier to Progress', Ernest Erber argues that the nation-state and the principle of national sovereignty is in historical declineand that the right of national self-determination will fade as ethnic minority rights are subsumed under the expanding umbrella of human rights. In 'Nationalism and the Self', Lynne Jones discusses psychological aspects of nationalism, and argues that Yugoslavia illustrates how the rejection of nationalist aspirations tends, paradoxically, to intensify them. In 'Really Existing Nationalism', Bogdan Denitch argues that nationalism provides a collective identity that can be adopted to protect against the collapse of universalisms, e.g., communism.
Discipline(s)	political sociology
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