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IS LIBERAL NATIONALISM INCOMPATIBLE WITH GLOBAL DEMOCRACY?
Author(s) -
SCHUTTER HELDER DE,
TINNEVELT RONALD
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01563.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , democracy , vision , normative , politics , globalization , state (computer science) , cosmopolitanism , liberal democracy , political science , political economy , sociology , global justice , epistemology , environmental ethics , law , philosophy , anthropology , algorithm , computer science
To respond to globalization‐related challenges, many contemporary political theorists have argued for forms of democracy beyond the level of the nation‐state. Since the early 1990s, however, political theory has also witnessed a renewed normative defense of nationhood. Liberal nationalists have been influential in claiming that the state should protect and promote national identities, and that it is desirable that the boundaries of national and political units coincide. At first glance, both positions—global democracy and nationalism—seem to contradict each other. We do not share this oppositional picture. Developing a more harmonic picture of nationalist ideals and cosmopolitan visions is the aim of this essay.