"Don't underestimate nationalism"

Author(s):
Marks, G.
Published
2005
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Why is the EU not a federal state, and why has movement in the direction of federalism been arrested? The most powerful reason lies in the mobilization of national identity against further European integration. Group attachments can be extraordinarily powerful, and few more so than attachments to territorially-defined communities. A student of modern Europe might heed a simple dictum: "Don't underestimate nationalism."

Date issued
2005-01
Language
English
Is part of
Bestuurskundige Berichten (2005), Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 5-6
hdl
1887/3211313
URL
https://www.bilboard.nl/verenigingsbladen/bestuurskundige-berichten