Nationalism and After
Nationalism and After
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Edward Hallett Carr
NATIONALISM AND AFTER
Books by Prof. E. H. Carr
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE THE PEACE TREATIES
MICHAEL BAKUNIN
THE TWENTY YEARS' CRISIS,
CONDITIONS OF PEACE
I919-1939
NATIONALISM
AND
AFTER
BY
EDWARD H A L L E T T CARR
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLÈGE OF WALES
LONDON
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CONTENTS
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I. THE CLIMAX OF NATIONALISM
T h e First Period
2
T h e Second Period
6
T h e Third Period
17
T h e Climax
26
A Fourth Period ?
II. THE PROSPECTS OF INTERNATIONALISM
Individual and Nation
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38
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38
Power in the International Order
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51
Principles and Purposes
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60
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POSTSCRIPT
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" Nationality does not aim either at liberty or prosperity, both of which it sacrifices to the imperative necessity of making the nation the mould and measure of the state. Its course will be marked with material as well as moral ruin."
ACTON (1862)
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THE CLIMAX OF NATIONALISM
IT is commonly assumed that nations in the modern sense are the product of the disruption of the international — or rather pre-international— order of mediaeval Christendom, and that they represent the projection on a collective national plane of the Renaissance spirit of adventurous and selfassertive individualism. It is further assumed that international relations in the contemporary sense of the term date from the 16th and 17th centuries, when international wars recognizably similar to those of more recent times began to be waged and modern international law first took shape. These assumptions are broadly correct. But the third assumption frequently made that the fundamental character of nations and the type of problem presented by relations between
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*
Edward Hallett Carr
NATIONALISM AND AFTER
Books by Prof. E. H. Carr
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE THE PEACE TREATIES
MICHAEL BAKUNIN
THE TWENTY YEARS' CRISIS,
CONDITIONS OF PEACE
I919-1939
NATIONALISM
AND
AFTER
BY
EDWARD H A L L E T T CARR
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
IN THE UNIVERSITY COLLÈGE OF WALES
LONDON
MACMILLAN
R
&
945
CO.
LTD
COPYRIGHT
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
B Y R. it R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH
CONTENTS
PAGE
1
I. THE CLIMAX OF NATIONALISM
T h e First Period
2
T h e Second Period
6
T h e Third Period
17
T h e Climax
26
A Fourth Period ?
II. THE PROSPECTS OF INTERNATIONALISM
Individual and Nation
.
.
38
.
38
Power in the International Order
.
51
Principles and Purposes
.
.
60
.
•
71
POSTSCRIPT
.
.
v
.
" Nationality does not aim either at liberty or prosperity, both of which it sacrifices to the imperative necessity of making the nation the mould and measure of the state. Its course will be marked with material as well as moral ruin."
ACTON (1862)
vi
I
THE CLIMAX OF NATIONALISM
IT is commonly assumed that nations in the modern sense are the product of the disruption of the international — or rather pre-international— order of mediaeval Christendom, and that they represent the projection on a collective national plane of the Renaissance spirit of adventurous and selfassertive individualism. It is further assumed that international relations in the contemporary sense of the term date from the 16th and 17th centuries, when international wars recognizably similar to those of more recent times began to be waged and modern international law first took shape. These assumptions are broadly correct. But the third assumption frequently made that the fundamental character of nations and the type of problem presented by relations between