Political loyalty and the nation-state / / edited by Michael Waller and Andrew Linklater

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.6/5
• Soggetto topico: Allegiance
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WallerMichael <1934-> LinklaterAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Political Loyalty and the Nation-State; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: loyalty and the post-national state; Part I Rethinking national loyalty; 1 Cosmopolitan loyalties and cosmopolitan citizenship in the Enlightenment; 2 Loyalty and plurality: images of the nation in Australia; 3 Deterritorialized loyalty: multiculturalism and Bosnia; 4 Conflicting loyalties: women's human rights and the politics of identity; 5 Political loyalty and military disobedience: militarism, pacifism,realism and just-war theory compared ; Part II Competing loyalties: minorities, supranational bodies and the state6 Human rights and the shaping of loyalties; 7 Divided loyalties, empowered citizenship? Muslims in Britain; 8 Loyalty and the European Union; 9 Wider still and wider may thy bounds be set? National loyalty and the European Union; 10 Loyalty to the folkhem? Scandinavian scepticism and the European Project; Part III Conflicting loyalties in the state; 11 Deconstructing and reconstructing loyalty: the case of Italy; 12 National identities, historical narratives and patron states in Northern Ireland ; 13 The paradoxes of political loyalty in RussiaPart IV Conclusion; 14 The changing face of political loyalty; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Political Loyalty and the Nation-State examines the gradual weakening of the state's ability to order the political allegiances of its subjects. At the focal centre of the book lies the question of the extent to which it is possible to invest political principles, such as the rules and procedures of democracy, with a sentiment of loyalty and whether political loyalty can become merely a matter of choice and personal responsibility. The authors consider theoretical issues, problems of loyalty arising from population movement and case studies of conflicts of loyalty from Italy, Northern
• Titolo autorizzato: Political loyalty and the nation-state
• ISBN: 1-134-20143-5; 0-415-86015-6; 1-280-33846-6; 0-203-42694-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450974403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; ; 23.