Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea
that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the
breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the
following decade confirmed this hypothesis with the rise of
independence movements in Europe (in Scotland and Flanders) and the
persistence of claims to nationhood the world over (for example, in
Kurdistan and Tibet). A dual perspective informs Dieckhoff's
analysis: to understand the hidden social and cultural
underpinnings of post-Cold War identity dynamics, from Kosovo to
Catalonia and from Flanders to Corsica, and to examine how
societies can meet the challenge of national pluralism. Finding
liberalism, republicanism and multiculturalism unequal to this
task, he argues that only by building 'multi-nation' democratic
states can the issues be properly addressed and secessions
prevented. Contemporary liberal discourse often treats nationalism
as an archaic aberration -- as a primitive form of tribalism astray
in the modern world.Dieckhoff's sensitive and clear-headed analysis
shows why nationalism is in fact a fundamental facet of modernity,
which must be dealt with as such by states vulnerable to breakup.
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