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National security --- Regionalism --- Nation-state --- World politics

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Slovaquie ; politique --- Slowakije ; politiek --- Nation-state --- Individualism --- Liberalism --- Nationalism --- State, The --- Slovakia --- Politics and government --- Individualism. --- Liberalism. --- Nation-state. --- Nationalism. --- State, The. --- Slovakia - Politics and government

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In a world where the traditional territorial organisation of the state is coming under increasing challenge from pressures from above (globalisation) and from below (struggles for federalisation and secession), the theoretical and practical questions concerning secessionist struggles become ever more acute. It is these questions that this volume addresses. Why do some struggles for autonomy take acute forms, above all violent struggles for secession (for example, Chechnya), whileothers remain within the framework of constitutional politics (for example, Tatarstan and Quebec)? Under what condit

Secession --- Self-determination, National --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Separatist movements

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This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not altogether dismissive, of the idea of the nation and the related metaphor of the political body as an organism. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. Cheah argues that the widespread association of freedom with the self-generating dynamism of life and culture's power of transcendence is the most important legacy of this tradition. Addressing this legacy's manifestations in Fanon and Cabral's theories of anticolonial struggle and contemporary anticolonial literature, including the Buru Quartet by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's nationalist novels, Cheah suggests that the profound difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world indicate the need to reconceptualize freedom in terms of the figure of the specter rather than the living organism.

Postcolonialism. --- Decolonization. --- Nationalism. --- State, The. --- National characteristics. --- Nation-state. --- Culture. --- Liberty. --- Internationalism. --- Philosophy, German --- Philosophy, German

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- National state --- Citizen participation --- Democracy --- Nation --- Participation des citoyens --- Démocratie --- Nationalism --- Nation-state. --- Political participation. --- Démocratie --- INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES --- VIE POLITIQUE --- ETAT --- NATIONS --- CITOYENNETE