1st Edition

Political Loyalty and the Nation-State

Edited By Andrew Linklater, Michael Waller Copyright 2003
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Political Loyalty and the Nation-State examines the gradual weakening of the state's ability to order the political allegiances of its subjects. At the focal centre of the book lies the question of the extent to which it is possible to invest political principles, such as the rules and procedures of democracy, with a sentiment of loyalty and whether political loyalty can become merely a matter... Read more
Part I: Rethinking National Loyalty
Part II: Competing Loyalties, Minorities, Supranational Bodies and the State
Part III: Conflicting Loyalties in the State

Biography

Michael Waller is Professor Emeritus of European Politics at Keele University. Andrew Linklater is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.