Politics of Belonging

Alain Dieckhoff is Director of Research at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales/CNRS.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: New Perspectives on NationalismPart 2 Philosophical BasisChapter 3 The Odd and the Even: Nationhood and DemocracyChapter 4 From Nation-Building to National Engineering: On the Ethics of Shaping IdentitiesChapter 4 The Postnational Constellation and the Future of the Liberal StatePart 5 Political Unity and National IdentityChapter 6 States and National Cultures: In the Beginning . . . .Chapter 8 Between Universalism and Multiculturalism: The French Model in Contemporary Political TheoryChapter 8 The Problem of Civic Education in Multicultural SocietiesPart 9 Acknowledging DiversityChapter 10 Justice and Security in the Accommodation of Minority NationalismChapter 11 National Minorities without NationalismPart 12 Models of DiversityChapter 14 The Management of Cultural Diversity in FranceChapter 15 Territorial or Cultural Autonomy for National Minorities?Chapter 16 The Principle of Personal Autonomy: A Solution for the Future?

The essays in this collection are all thoughtful and closely argued, and the collection as a whole is a very worthwhile discussion of the problem of how to maintain national identity in divided societies.