Review: States, Nations, Sovereignty
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209605100116 |
| Date | 01 March 1996 |
| Published date | 01 March 1996 |
| Author | Arthur G. Rubinoff |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/NATION
&
STATE
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Poland
and
to
a
cogent
analysis
of
the
fit
between
mass
attitudes
and
party
positions.
Gabor
Nagy's
paper
on
Hungarian
citizenship
law
is
rather
formal
and
too inconclusive,
but
it
illustrates
the
dilemmas
of
multiple citizenship
and
ius
sanguinis
(the
automatic
extension
of
citi-
zenship
to
descendants).
This
should
interest
Canadians
concerned
about
the implications
of
Quebec
secession,
as
should
the
papers
on
the
Czech
Republic
and
Slovakia
by
Martin
Palous
and
Olga
Gyarfasova.
The
former
emphasizes
the
concept
of
citizen
as
participant rather
than
subject
while
the
later
presents
fascinating
data
on
public
opinion
over
the
1990-3
period.
All
these
papers
are
followed
by
wide-ranging
comments
and
dis-
cussions.
At
the
end,
Warner
argues
that
citizenship
'is
a
prism
through
which
political
life
can
be
studied.
And citizenship
in
the
Visegrad
countries
at
this
particular
moment
...
offers
an ideal
object
to
look
at
through
the
prism.'
Perhaps.
There
is
a
lot
here.
It
was
a
stimulating
conference,
and
the book
is
a
handsome one,
with useful
references
and
a
good
index.
Like
many
conference
volumes
it
will
be
read
thor-
oughly
by
a
few
specialists.
Many
other
scholars
should
spend
some
time
over
selected
chapters.
Robert
Young/University
of
Western
Ontario
STATES,
NATIONS,
SOVEREIGNTY
Sri
Lanka,
India and
the
Tamil
Eelam
movement
Sumantra
Bose
New
Delhi:
Sage
Publications,
1994,
236pp,
US$
3
3.
4o
This
pretentious
book
focusses
on
the
violent
ethnic
conflict
that
has
evolved
into
a full-scale
civil
war
between
Sri
Lanka's
Buddhist Sinha-
lese
majority
(73
per
cent
of
the
population) and
the
Hindu
Tamil
minority
(18
per
cent).
The
methodology
is
a
dialectic
whereby
repres-
sion
by
the majority
Sinhalese
provoked
resistance
from
the
minority
Tamils
until
that
community
created
a
national
identity.
The
experi-.
ence
is
reminiscent
of
how
the
Palestinians became
a
nation
under
Israeli
occupation.
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