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The European question is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the nation-state. This reflection springs from fundamental issues such as: ‘What is it that makes individuals come together as a people?’ That being established, we do not ask: ‘What are the conditions necessary for individuals to become a nation?’ But building a nation is one way of forming a people. It is that classic—or classical-modern—route which at the same time defines the role or principal functions of a modern state.
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Ferry, JM. (2005). The New European Question. In: Dieckhoff, A., Jaffrelot, C. (eds) Revisiting Nationalism. The CERI series in Comparative Politics and International Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10326-0_11
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