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State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples

State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples - Cambridge Studies in International Relations

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Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state building. Political elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled. Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV, and in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional. Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenization as a method of state-building.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521797085
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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DEWEY: 320.1
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 595g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm