What is it about?
The book focuses on the impact of State partitions in Europe from the failure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to Brexit. This is not only a history of nationalist dynamics in Europe, but also an in-depth exploration of the radical changes that affect the current form of state between potentials for integration and risks of new wars.
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Why is it important?
The book helps understand the deep crisis that affect Europe nowadays, while facing the reluctances of sovranist membr-states, uncertainties of stabilization in South-East Europe, the impact of migrations, and the economic crisis of 2008. The Brexit is an additionl factor which contributes to weaken a crucial project of democratization and integration, represented by the EU. At the same time the news from medicine, time-space compression, IT, demands for new civil rights are making teh borders porous and trasnantional relations a key for peace.
Perspectives
I hope that this book will allow all interested readers to grasp the dilemmas of our time and the impact of new social polarizations, which mark our societies. Furthermore, the hope is that, considering the historical trajectory of state partitions and nationalism, as well as their current impact on our everyday life, the arguments included in the book will encourage readers to give relevance to the new challenges of democracy in terms of quality and acceptance of sincretism and otherness.
Stefano Bianchini
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
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This page is a summary of: Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe, January 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing,
DOI: 10.4337/9781786436610.
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