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State, state-nation, cultural nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Ferenc Glatz
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Abstract

The paper examines the background of current national and minority conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe and argues that a deeper-going analysis of these phenomena calls for a reconsideration of the traditional European territorial-administrative institutions. It argues that the European State-structure as shaped in the 17–19th centuries is the greatest obstacle to the prevention of global dangers, then looks at the typical arguments against dismantling the present national-state borders.

The conclusion is that European nations are primarily cultural nations and they have to survive in that form for the 21st century.

Type
FOCUS—Nations, States and Human Rights
Information
European Review , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 385 - 389
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1993

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