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UNDERSTATED NATIONS: Anomalies or Solutions in the Modern World?

by David McCrone

Paper given at conference on ‘Nations without States in the Global Age’
Queen Mary, London, 28th-29th June 2007

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The conventional wisdom concerning 'nation-building' has been to treat territories within states which consider themselves to be nations as anomalies in the modern world, the results of inadequate incorporation into state structures in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Far from being anomalous, 'understated' nations, i.e. those nations with substantial powers of self-government without being fully 'independent', reflect what Benedict Anderson referred to as the 'crisis of the hyphen' for the so-called nation-state under pressure from political, economic and cultural changes in the 21st century. 

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(Published Online: 28 April 2008)

 

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