Is Europe witnessing the death of the once-mighty nation-state? If it si, then two of the most powerful factors in its post-war decline have been European integration and regionalism. This book provides a definitive examination of the new patterns of politics and policy that link the three levels of European Union, nation-state, and region. Looking at each member state in turn, the authors emphasize the diversity of European experience. This book examines how integration and regional assertion threaten this institution and are altering the politics of Europe as it moves towards the...

Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on 1 May 1997, and the Conservative Party was wiped out in both Scotland and Wales.

Devolution is firmly back on the British political agenda since a Labour government committed to its introduction was elected by a massive majority on 1 May 1997, and the Conservative Party was wiped out in both Scotland and Wales.

Silicon technology now allows us to build chips consisting of tens of millions of transistors. This technology not only promises new levels of system integration onto a single chip, but also presents significant challenges to the chip designer. As a result, many ASIC developers and silicon vendors are re-examining their design methodologies, searching for ways to make effective use of the vast numbers of gates now available.

This is a comparative study of nationalism and nation-building in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland. All are historic nations within larger states. Nationalism is presented as a mechanism for dealing with the place of the territorial society in the new order. It is no longer concerned with the creation of a traditional nation state but with maximizing autonomy in a world where the nation state has lost its old powers and status.

Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland are three stateless nations looking for a future in a world beyond the nation state. This book argues that national identity may be a vital source of social cohesion in a world dominated by markets and global forces, but that this does not necessarily entail sovereign statehood in the traditional sense. These three nations are harbingers of a new post-sovereigntist nationhood.

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of sovereignty and of the state itself to meet the twin challenges of recognition of nationality and of democracy. Drawing on the experience of four plurinational state - United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - and of the European Union, he...