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| The International Social Science Journal (ISSJ), founded by UNESCO in 1949, is published quarterly in six language editions: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. |
 Its purpose is to bridge diverse communities of social scientists, working in different problems and disciplines and in different parts of the world. It provides information and debate on subjects of interest to an international readership, written by an equally international range of authors. The ISSJ has a particular interest in policy-relevant questions and interdisciplinary approaches. It serves as a forum for review, reflection and discussion informed by the results of relevant research, rather than as an outlet of “first publication” for the results of individual research projects. More about the ISSJ ...
CURRENT ISSUE
192 - Dilemmas in Nation-Building
June 2008
Editorial advisers: Jerome Braun and George J. McCall
It is often considered that every State ought to be a “nation-state” in the sense that its geographical borders ought to correspond roughly to the boundaries of some ethnically, religiously, linguistically or culturally defined population. Such correspondence is not typically given prior to the state, nor is it a process that unfolds as a more or less mechanical consequence of the existence of the State. Rather, it is a self-conscious project. It is a familiar finding from comparative research that such “nation-building” does not always work and that the attempt to pursue it may have consequences up to and including genocide. In which circumstances, then, is nation-building a viable project? The papers collected in the dossier of this issue explore the connections between civic and civil society and their implications, particularly in light of contemporary processes of globalization that place traditional modes of nation-building largely out of reach. |
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