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(2005) Revisiting nationalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The European question is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the nation-state. This reflection springs from fundamental issues such as: "What is it that makes individuals come together as a people?" That being established, we do not ask: "What are the conditions necessary for individuals to become a nation?" But building a nation is one way of forming a people. It is that classic—or classical-modern—route which at the same time defines the role or principal functions of a modern state.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-10326-0_11
Full citation:
Ferry, J. (2005)., The new European question, in A. Dieckhoff & C. Jaffrelot (eds.), Revisiting nationalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 222-238.