The fate of the nation-state (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - Theories and practices - Michel Seymour -- - PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS: NATIONAL, MULTINATIONAL, SUPRANATIONAL -- - Sleeping dogs, prowling cats, and soaring doves: three paradoxes of nationhood - Margaret Canovan -- - Is modernity possible without nationalism? - Liah Greenfeld -- - Four kinds of (post- )nation-building - Daniel Weinstock -- - Nationalism and global democracy: between the myth of community and the mirage of the global village - Jocelyne Couture -- - The nation-state and aboriginal self-determination - Ross Poole -- - Collective rights in multi-nation states: from ethical individualism to the law of peoples - Michel Seymour -- - The complementarity of rights: Rawls and Habermas on international justice for individuals and groups - David Ingram -- - Are nation-states obsolete? The challenge of globalization - Kai Nielsen -- - Global decency - Avishai Margalit --
- PART TWO: CASE STUDIES MULTINATIONAL SOCIETIES AND NATION-STATES -- - Will Russia go the way of the Soviet Union? - Matthew Evangelista -- - Civic nationalism and the Northern Ireland conflict - John McGarry -- - Understanding the nation: the Scottish question - David McCrone -- - Catalonia: a non-secessionist nationalism? - Montserrat Guibernau -- - Settling partition hostilities: lessons learned, options ahead - Radha Kumar -- - Understanding indigenous nationalism - Michael Murphy -- - Linguistic rights for U.S. Hispanics - Thomas W. Pogge -- - The status of Finland's Swedish national minority: exemplary -- but for whom? - Henry Milner -- - The majority-minority syndrome and Muslim personal law in India - Rajeev Bhargava -- - Ethnicity, migration, and statehood in post-cold war Europe - Rogers Brubaker -- - The future of Indonesia - Benedict Anderson -- - The future of the nation-state and Quebec-Canada relations - Kenneth McRoberts -- - Conclusion
- The rights and obligations of persons and nations - Michel Seymour