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.
Table of Contents:
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 Núñez 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
IÑIGO URRUTIA
Ethical Nationalism: Social Citizenship in Multi-National States
ERIK VANDERHEYDEN
About the Author :
Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, where she teaches contemporary Spanish politics and history, and the representation of history in literature and visual media. Her publications have centred on the intellectual and writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and on the Spanish Civil War. She is member of the editorial board of Ediciones Alfar (Spain) and of a Research Network, which is officially recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Education, on the International Brigades.
Dr Nicola Brady is a Research Associate with the Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Her Ph.D. examined the response of the Catholic Hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1973) and the Basque Country (1936-1975). She is currently employed as General Secretary to the Irish Council of Churches where her work has a particular focus on the contribution of Christian churches to peace, reconciliation and social justice in Ireland, as well as in a wider European and global context. In 2019 she was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship to examine the role of churches and faith communities in overcoming political polarization and social exclusion in the United States. She is a Director of Christian Aid Ireland and the Maximilian Kolbe Foundation.
