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State, state-nation, cultural nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2009
Abstract
The paper examines the background of current national and minority conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe and argues that a deeper-going analysis of these phenomena calls for a reconsideration of the traditional European territorial-administrative institutions. It argues that the European State-structure as shaped in the 17–19th centuries is the greatest obstacle to the prevention of global dangers, then looks at the typical arguments against dismantling the present national-state borders.
The conclusion is that European nations are primarily cultural nations and they have to survive in that form for the 21st century.
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