Nationhood and political theory

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The case against nationalism: romantic-collectivist nationalism liberal-individualistic nationalism nationalhood as a tacit assumption in political theory. Part 3 Democratic theory - government by the people: the geographic limits of the people membership of the people collective identity. Part 4 Social justice - looking after our people: boundaries and bonds social solidarity and effective government. Part 5 Liberal universalism - a national heritage?: political theory, political community and nationhood. Part 6 What is a nation?: nations as states nations as cultural communities nations and subjective identity nations as ethnic groups modernization and nation-building nation-building and modernization. Part 7 Power from the people - nationhood and political community: nations as mediators nations as worlds nations as batteries English/British nationhood. Part 8 Nationhood, patriotism and universalism: states without nations the state as a service station constitutional patriotism universal principles and particluar polities republican patriotism. Part 9 Nationalism versus liberal democracy: national variations nationalism as politics the modern prince the dialect of nationhood nations under threat? Part 10 Nationhood and political theory: beneath and beyond the nation-state defending the nation-state national liberalism? realism, utopianism and muddling through nationalist realism universalist utopianism neo-Hobbesian realism muddling through.