This book investigates why, despite European integration, separatist nationalism continues to thrive in EU member states. Laible demonstrates that the EU sustains the importance of statehood, and therefore separatism, and creates new forms of political capital that nationalists employ in their struggles for self-government.
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Introduction: Separatism and Statehood in an Integrating Europe New Contexts and New Meanings for Strategies of Self-Government The Development of Political Nationalism in Scotland and Flanders Nationalists and Europe: Initial Encounters Europeanizing the Nationalist Agenda: The Scottish National Party Europeanizing the Nationalist Agenda: The Vlaams Belang The European Parliament: The Nationalist Presence in a European Institution Lobbying for the ‘National Interest’ Conclusion: New Nationalisms in a New Europe?
Circa l’autore
JANET LAIBLE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA where she teaches courses on nationalism, Western European politics and the European Union.
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