Transcending the National / Asserting the National: How Stateless Nations like Scotland, Wales and Catalonia React to European Integration

How can minority nations, how can minority nationalists who assert their national identity not only accept, but in some cases even actively fight for a process of European integration which may have started to “transcend the national”? The article discusses what Europe has to offer them, and in what...

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Published inThe Australian journal of politics and history Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 57 - 74
Main Author Nagel, Klaus-Jürgen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK and Boston, USA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2004
Subjects
Catalonia
Catalonia, Spain
Europe
European integration
European Union
Great Britain
History
Independence
Minorities
Nation
National Identity
National minorities
Nationalism
Nationalists
Political Integration
Political science
Regionalism
Scotland
Transnationalism
United Kingdom
Wales
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Summary:How can minority nations, how can minority nationalists who assert their national identity not only accept, but in some cases even actively fight for a process of European integration which may have started to “transcend the national”? The article discusses what Europe has to offer them, and in what ways that offer may be “flawed”. It will compare nationalist strategies (Europe of the Regions, Independence in Europe), and establish relations between the choice of an European strategy and the consolidation of minority nationalism at home.
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Australian Journal of Politics and History, v.50, no.1, Mar 2004: (57)-74
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ISSN:0004-9522
1467-8497
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00320.x