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In the aftermath of the twentieth century's raging warfare, attempts were made to create an environment in which new relationships between European nations could be built around a common identity. Yet, in the twenty-first century, identity conflicts are gaining a new intensity in parts of the continent. In the analysis of some sub-state nationalist parties, the prospect of European Union membership reduces the economic and political risks of secession. Meanwhile, to the east, any moves towards expansion of EU membership are viewed by Russia not as a peace project but as acts of aggression. This volume assembles a series of comparative and single-area case studies drawn from different academic disciplines. While interrogating the history of identity conflict in the European context, an essential component of efforts to reduce such conflicts in the future, the authors bring an array of methodological approaches to analyses of the many intersecting political, cultural and economic factors that influence the formation of nationhood and identity, and the resurgence of nationalism.

Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?: Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity, and Belonging in Europe

Preface

ADRIAN GUELKE

Introduction

SUSANA BAYÓ BELENGUER AND NICOLA BRADY

The Basque Country within Spain and Europe: Proposals of the Basque Nationalist Party during the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1975-1980)

LEYRE ARRIETA ALBERDI

Nationalism: In Correspondence with Professor Xosé Manuel Núnez Seixas

SUSANA BAYÓ BELENGUER AND NICOLA BRADY

Enlargement from Within? Secession and EU Membership

EMMANUEL DALLE MULLE

Flagging the Nation

GORKA ETXEBARRIA

Al tyempo del kuechko dulse: History, Language, Identity in
Enrique Soporta y Beja's account of Jewish Life in Salonika

KATERINA GARCIA

Patria and Citizenship: Primo de Rivera, Caciques and Military
Delegados, Spain 1923-1924

RICHARD GOW

Becoming Catalan through Speech: Narrative Cultivation of Self among
Catalan Nationalists

MARK FRIIS HAU

Russian Geopolitical Thinking and the Ukrainian Crisis: Neo-Imperialist
Aspirations or a mere Survival Strategy?

CARLES JOVANí GIL

Contested Unionism along the Irish Border at the Time of Partition
DANIEL PURCELL

Re-Building Bridges: Nations and States in present-day Spain

JOAN ROMERO, JOAQUÍN MARTÍN CUBAS, MARGARITA SOLER,
JOSÉ MARÍA VIDAL, CARLES JOVANÍ

Separatism in the New Millenium: Looking Back to See Forward

ROBERT SAUNDERS

The Catalan Pro-Independence Movement: Impact on the International
Agenda and Media Pluralism

MARÇAL SINTES-OLIVELLA, JOSEP-LLUÍS MICÓ-SANZ,
FRANCESC-MARC ÁLVARO VIDAL

Pulling Together Romanians: Post-2007 Relations between Citizenship
and Nationhood

SORINA SOARE

The Democratic Principle, Secession and Self-Determination in the
Practice of International Law: Lessons Learned

INIGO URRUTIA

Ethical Nationalism: Social Citizenship in Multi-National States

ERIK VANDERHEYDEN