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University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Journal of International Law

2004

Legitimacy

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Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz Jan 2004

Commentary To Professor Stephen D. Krasner, Jürgen Kurtz

Michigan Journal of International Law

Comment on Professor Stephen D. Krasner's The Hole in the Whole: Sovereignty, Shared Sovereignty, and International Law


Nations Without States: Political Communities In The Global Age, Montserrat Guibernau Jan 2004

Nations Without States: Political Communities In The Global Age, Montserrat Guibernau

Michigan Journal of International Law

The nation has become one of the most contested concepts of our times. The multifarious definitions of the nation focus on cultural, political, psychological, territorial, ethnic, and sociological principles according to different scholars, politicians, and political activists willing to shed some light into such a disputed term. Their lack of agreement suggests a major difficulty in dealing with such a complex phenomenon. The crux of the matter probably resides close to the link which has been established between nation and State, and to the common practice of using the nation as a source of political legitimacy. To be or not …