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Introduction: Ethnic Nationalism And Europe |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ETHNIC NATIONALISM AND EUROPE |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 883 Words, 5,798 Characters |
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The articles on European nationalism featured in this month's Currents in Modern Thought take a contemporary view of the subject. They also look beyond the continent's borders to the effects of Europe's nationalist legacy on the rest of today's world.
Europe's many Greco-Roman renaissances invariably pointed it away from the nation-state. The ancient Greeks never worked toward a politically unified national existence. They viewed their subnational political autonomy as being worth the price of virtually incessant wars among their own kind. Still, they proudly acknowle...
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...from Jean Monent to Jacques Delors, to represent themselves as "pro-European" in order to condemn their nationalist and patriotic counterparts--like Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher--as "anti-European." In Paolucci's view, the native tendency of the Germano-European peoples has always been to reject both subnational and supranational political association in favor of sovereign nationhood.
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