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2008

July/August 2008

"Separatism's Final Country"

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 4, volume 87

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program and Arthur A. Stein

"Muller argues that ethnonationalism is the wave of the future and will result in more and more independent states, but this is not likely. One of the most destabilizing ideas throughout human history has been that every separately defined cultural unit should have its own state. Endless disruption and political introversion would follow an attempt to realize such a goal. Woodrow Wilson gave an impetus to further state creation when he argued for "national self-determination" as a means of preventing more nationalist conflict, which he believed was a cause of World War I...."

 

2006

August 31, 2006

No More States? Globalization, National Self-Determination, and Terrorism

Book

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program and Arthur A. Stein

This provocative and compelling book explores the impact of globalization and terrorism on this trend, arguing convincingly that the era of national self-determination has finally come to an end.

 

 

August 31, 2006

"Globalization and its Effects: Introduction and Overview"

Book Chapter

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Etel Solingen and Arthur A. Stein

"Globalization has the effect of incapacitating states as autonomous units."

 

 

August 31, 2006

"The Dilemma of Devolution and Federalism: Secessionary Nationalism and the Case of Scotland"

Book Chapter

By Arthur A. Stein and Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program

"In 1707, England and Scotland completed their union. Yet more than a quarter of a millennium later Scottish nationalism made a reappearance...."

 

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