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Yoram Hazony’s argument in The Virtue of Nationalism (reviewed here and here) depends on a hard either/or between the nation-state and the empire. A nation is either sovereign or it isn’t. Empires inevitably destroy the sovereignty of the states they incorporate, even if this fact is cloaked in lovey liberal euphemisms.
Hazony, moreover, argues that even though empires might appeal to universalistic ideologies, they always begin with a particular people, a particular ethnic core, Read more …
Hazony on National Self-Determination
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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Read more on Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism here, here, and here.
The right of peoples to self-determination is one of the basic norms of contemporary international law. Read more …