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Contents
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Preface
- 2 Political belonging: loyalty, community and statehood
- 3 Self-determination: individual and collective
- 4 What is a ‘nation’?
- 5 Nationalism as an ideology
- 5.1 Ideology: a contested concept
- 5.2 ‘The prioritisation of a particular group – the nation – as a key constituting and identifying framework for human beings and their practices’
- 5.3 ‘A positive valorisation is assigned to one's own nation, granting it specific claims over the conduct of its members’
- 5.4 ‘The desire to give politico-institutional expression to the first two core concepts’
- 5.5 ‘A sense of belonging and membership in which sentiment and emotion play an important role’
- 6 National self-determination
- 6.1 When is secession justified?
- 6.2 Who should get to vote on secession?
- 6.3 What size of majority vote should decide the issue?
- 6.4 Does one community seceding grant a similar right to others?
- 6.5 Do our answers depend on who the groups are?
- 6.6 What about a more restrictive ‘remedial right?’
- 6.7 What about alternatives to secession?
- 7 Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements
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