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Nationalism in Europe: Trends and Threats

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The new centrality of Europe and especially of Germany seems to have resulted from the rapid breakdown of the ‘Eastern subsystem’, or rather the composite Soviet empire that contributed in 1945 to the marginalisation of the old continent and to the bipolar division of the world.

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  1. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    László Valki

  2. Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    László Valki

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Santoro, C.M. (1992). Nationalism in Europe: Trends and Threats. In: Valki, L. (eds) Changing Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrines. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12060-4_9

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