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Conclusion

The Inverted U-Curve of Nationalism? The Nation-State, Regionalisation and Globalisation

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Revisiting Nationalism

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The essays in this volume have all attempted, from different standpoints, to explain the birth, development and resilience of nationalism in the mo-dern era. Undoubtedly, as we hypothesised in the introduction, this ‘ism’ has been a major phenomenon of the last two centuries. This is evident from the multiplication of nation-states all over the world. At the be-ginning of the nineteenth century there were about ten states—most of them European—in the world; today there are nearly two hundred. Such an increase testifies to the strength of the principle of self-determination, which proclaims the right of peoples to decide their own future.1

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Dieckhoff, A., Jaffrelot, C. (2005). Conclusion. 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_13

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