Nationalism in Central Europe-A Chance or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?
Nationalism in Central Europe-A Chance or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?

Summary/Abstract: While intellectuals and some politicians in the West have seen Europe approaching the postmodern age-the outdated conceptions of a national state to be replaced by a new multinational and multicultural entity-the backward neighbours in the East were thought vulnerable to a resurgence of nationalism. Thus, analysts like Schopflin saw confirmed the old concept of two essentially different forms of nationalism: the enlightened western, supportive of democracy, and the backward eastern, an obstacle to any genuinely democratic society. In reality, however, two (or more) different conceptions of nationalism are competing for influence within particular countries in both the East and the West.

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