Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I: The Nation: Introduction; 1. The Nation: Which kind of political community?; 2. The Ethnic Nation; 3. The Civic Nation; 4. Alternative approaches; 5. Primordial phenomenon or modern phenomenon?; 6. Denationalisation through globalisation?; Part II: Nationalism: Definitions and functions; Introduction; 7. Macro-nationalism: Nationalism as ideology; 8. Meso-nationalism as social movement; 9. Micro-nationalism as attitude; 10. Typologies of nationalism; 11. Nationalism: good or evil? Liberal versus illiberal nationalism; Part III: European Nationalism in Practice; 12. Western Europe; 13. Central and Eastern Europe; 14. Nationalism and European integration; Conclusion.

About the Author

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Chair of Political Science in the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is co-editor, with Andrzej Marcin Suszycki, of Nationalism and European Integration (2007) and Multiplicity of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (2009). Andrzej Marcin Suszycki is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Potsdam, Germany and a Lecturer in Political Theory and International Relations at the University of Passau, Germany. He is author of /Italienische Osteuropapolitik 1989-2000 (2003).

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