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PART I Methodological Turnings

Theoretical Difficulties in the Study of Nationalism

Pages 63-92 | Published online: 01 Jul 2013

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  • This process demands that the specific features of each case be closely examined: the nature of the groups involved, the history of the conflict, and the possible violation of rights that would follow from the proposed arrangements. Only then will it be possible to determine what kind of national rights are entailed in each specific case.
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  • Note that some approaches will combine both kinds of justifications. Still it will be important to know which kind of justification is grounded in a theory of nationalism and which ones are grounded in other types of theory.
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  • Defining the desire to preserve and enhance the national or cultural identity as the shared grounds of all theories of nationalism challenges the widely accepted interpretation of nationalism as necessarily prescribing the creation of a nationstate. The statist approach to nationalism is misleading in its endorsement of a specific political solution, which was popular in a particular historical setting as the sole end and the only true interpretation of nationalism.
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  • Judt's criticism, according to which a veil which allows members to acknowledge the general division of the world into nations and the fact that they themselves are members of such nations “isn't hiding anything significant,” is based on a misunderstanding of the role of the veil.
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