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State identities and the homogenisation of peoples

Author: Heather Rae
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Series: Cambridge studies in international relations, 84.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Why have forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide been an enduring feature of the modern state system? In this ground-breaking book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state-building. Political elites have repeatedly used available cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Heather Rae
ISBN: 0521792843 9780521792844 052179708X 9780521797085
OCLC Number: 48810551
Description: xiii, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: State formation and pathological homogenisation --
The "other" within Christian Europe: state building in early modern Spain --
State building in early modern France: Louis XIV and the Huguenots --
Pathological state building and Turkish state building: the Armenian genocide of 1915-1916 --
"Ethnic cleansing" and the breakup of Yugoslavia --
Evolving international norms --
On the threshold: the Czech Republic and Macedonia.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in international relations, 84.
Responsibility: Heather Rae.
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Abstract:

"Why have forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide been an enduring feature of the modern state system? In this ground-breaking book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state-building. Political elites have repeatedly used available 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 the 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 the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities have 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 homogenisation as a method of state-building."--Jacket.

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