Books by George Schopflin

In this analysis of nationalism, the author questions, in particular, why nations in the West are able to accept the nation as the legitimate space for democratic instutions, whereas in the post-communist world, especially in eastern Europe, ethnicity is pre-eminent.

Conceptions of nationalism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon remain fragmentary in the late-1990s. This text analyzes the contraditions inherent in the general understanding of nationalism in order to fashion a new intellectual synthesis.