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Decline of the nation state
01 Jan 1994-
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the formation of the modern nation and state in the context of the transformation of society and the restructuring of nations in a juridoco-political way.
Abstract: Part 1 Nation and the bourgeois revolution: building of the modern nation and state - a process of conflict the doctrinal genesis of the modern nation nation, nation-state and nationalism. Part 2 Nation and the working class: the national question in Marx-Engels and in the second international nation and nation-state on Marxism-Leninism contemporary society and its crisis the reconstruction of the nation within the context of the transformation of society juridoco-political restructuring of nations.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: Melissen as mentioned in this paper discussed the new public diplomacy between theory and practice, and argued that public diplomacy is between Theory and Practice, and proposed a dialogue-based public diplomacy paradigm.
Abstract: Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction J.Melissen PART I: THE NEW ENVIRONMENT The New Public Diplomacy: Between Theory and Practice J.Melissen Rethinking the 'New' Public Diplomacy B.Hocking PART II: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES Power, Public Diplomacy and the Pax Americana P.van Ham Niche Diplomacy in the World Public Arena: The Global 'Corners' of Canada and Norway A.K.Henrikson Public Diplomacy in the People's Republic of China I.d'Hooghe Revolutionary States, Outlaw Regimes and the Techniques of Public Diplomacy P.Sharp The EU as a Soft Power: The Force of Persuasion A.Michalski PART III: IMPROVING PRACTICE Culture Communicates: US Diplomacy that Works C.P.Schneider Making a National Brand W.Olins Dialogue-Based Public Diplomacy: A New Foreign Policy Paradigm? S.Riordan Training for Public Diplomacy: An Evolutionary Perspective J.Hemery Index
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the legitimacy of the constitution of the people is different from that of the constitutive power of the government, since the people cannot decide on its own composition the boundaries of democracy must be determined by other factors, such as the contingent forces of history.
Abstract: In political theory it goes without saying that the constitution of government raises a claim for legitimacy. With the constitution of the people, however, it is different. It is often dismissed as a historical question. The conviction is that since the people cannot decide on its own composition the boundaries of democracy must be determined by other factors, such as the contingent forces of history. This article critically assesses this view. It argues that like the constitution of government, the constitution of the people raises a claim for legitimacy. The failure to see this is what makes many theorists run into the arms of history. They submit the legitimacy of the people to the arbitrary and asymmetrical forces of the present.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the media construct the nation as a homogeneous collective within which the reader is positioned as belonging, and demonstrate how the "football hooligans" undergo "othering" in the press through de-authentication, pejoration, homogenization, and minoritization and universalization.
Abstract: This article analyses the press reportage (written texts and visual images) of the football game between Germany and England during Euro 2000. We examine how the press construct the nation as a homogeneous collective within which the (implied) reader is positioned as belonging. The article also examines the press coverage of civic disturbances involving England supporters. We demonstrate how the ‘football hooligans’ undergo ‘othering’ in the press through de-authentication, pejoration, homogenization, and minoritization and universalization. In doing so, the press are able to police the moral boundaries of what is considered normative in terms of membership within the national collective. We argue that the formulation of nationalism and the homogeneity and unity of the nation in the British press in relation to the England–Germany football game takes the form of three main strategies: separation, conflict and typification. Separation is predominantly realized in the rhetoric of ‘us’ and ‘them’, whereas co...
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...…nationalism, press reportage, othering Introduction In recent years, despite pronouncements by a number of commentators that nations are in decline (Held, 1990) or are becoming inconsequential to ‘the new supranational restructuring of the globe’ (Hobsbawm, 1990: 182) there has ‘We beat ’em’:…...
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TL;DR: The criminalization and penalization of migrants are among the most ancient and recurring features of the modern world, true icons of modernity as mentioned in this paper, and the criminalization of migration is a recurring feature of modern life.
Abstract: Migratory movements and the accompanying criminalization and penalization of migrants are among the most ancient and recurring features of the modern world, true icons of modernity. A characteristi...
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the stubborn persistence of nationalism in the current context of neo-liberal global restructuring and the dizzying expansion of nationalism research have not enhanced analytical consensus on core theoretical and methodological issues.
Abstract: Our current historical conjuncture is marked by a global proliferation of nationalisms that have fundamentally, and often violently, transformed the inherited geopolitical configuration of the post-war era. The apparent resurgence of nationalism has been matched by a growing convergence across disciplinary divides on the problematic of nationalism. A few salient prior works notwithstanding, it is mainly in the last two decades that nationalism has emerged as a central preoccupation of contemporary historical and social-scientific analyses. Remarkably, the stubborn persistence of nationalism in the current context of neo-liberal global restructuring and the dizzying expansion of nationalism research have not enhanced analytical consensus on core theoretical and methodological issues. Indeed, the rush for an analytical “fix” on nationalism has tended to fortify rather than resolve inherited methodological divides, especially that between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to nationalism.
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...87 Appadurai (1996, 1996); Breuilly (1985); Hardt and Negri (2000); Held (1990, 1995); Hobs- bawm (1990)....
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