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国際公共政策研究. 2012, 16(2), p. 11-26

Fluctuation between Civic and Ethnic Nationalism

Kawamura, Michiya

英語

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2012-03

Will economic and political globalization homogenize the world? Or will various ethno-national movements break out around the globe instead? To answer this question, we must examine the concept of nation. Nation has two important universalistic ideas embedded in it: `individual liberty' and `collective self-decision'. By using these two ideas, nation has unprecedented power to mobilize its people and resources. Yet to tap this power, nation has to make a desirable combination of the two ideas. If the two ideas can be combined easily, nation takes on a universal character, while if they become inconsistent, nation has to rely on its ethnic culture to suppress the inconsistency. Historically, nation has fluctuated between them. But now the two ideas have become autonomous, and various combinations are possible without much support of nation. As every combination seems valid, they compete with each other asserting their own validity under a certain ethnic symbol. In the end, ethno-national conflicts will break out more frequently in the future, but the claims of the ethnic groups will take on more universalistic characteristics than they have in the past.

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Fluctuation between Civic and Ethnic Nationalism

Kawamura, Michiya

大阪大学大学院国際公共政策研究科

英語

2012-03

国際公共政策研究

16

2

11

26

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/24500