Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Theories and Practices 1
5. Theoret Ical Foundations : National, Multinational, Supranational
6. Sleeping Dogs, Prowling Cats, and Soaring Doves: Three Paradoxes of Nationhood 19
7. Is Modernity Possible without Nationalism? 38
8. Four Kinds of (Post-)nation-building 51
9. Nationalism and Global Democracy: Between the Myth of Community and the Mirage of the Global Village 69
10. The Nation-state and Aboriginal Self-determination 90
11. Collective Rights in Multi-nation States: From Ethical Individualism to the Law of Peoples 105
12. The Complementarity of Rights: Rawls and Habermas on International Justice for Individuals and Groups 130
13. Are Nation-states Obsolete? The Challenge of Globalization 153
14. Global Decency 173
15. Case Studies Multinational Societies And Nation-States
16. Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? 181
17. Civic Nationalism and the Northern Ireland Conflict 194
18. Understanding the Nation: The Scottish Question 214
19. Catalonia: A Non-secessionist Nationalism? 234
20. Settling Partition Hostilities: Lessons Learned, Options Ahead 247
21. Understanding Indigenous Nationalism 271
22. Linguistic Rights for U.S. Hispanics 295
23. The Status of Finland’s Swedish National Minority: Exemplary – but for Whom? 310
24. The Majority–minority Syndrome and Muslim Personal Law in India 327
25. Ethnicity, Migration, and Statehood in Post–Cold War Europe 357
26. The Future of Indonesia 375
27. The Future of the Nation-state and Quebec–Canada Relations 390
28. Conclusion: The Rights and Obligations of Persons and Nations 403
29. Contributors 413
30. Index 419