Nations and Norms
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Review of Politics
- Vol. 43 (1) , 75-87
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500032381
Abstract
Nationalism like all political doctrines is at root normative, that is, it makes a claim that matters ought to be arranged in a certain way. The root claim of nationalism is that a nation should be self-governing. This article is concerned with the normative basis of that claim: upon what understanding of value, principle, norm, etc., does it rest? The exercise is thus abstract; it is not a concrete investigation into the causes of nationalism, and it is also less about the substantive doctrine or theory of nationalism than about what might be called its metatheory; finally, the paper does not presume to pronounce on the validity of nationalism as normative doctrine.Keywords
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