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100			_aVEROVSEK Peter J.
245			_a'The nation has conquered the state": _barendtian insights on the internal contradictions of the nation-state/ _cPeter J. Verovsek
260			_c2024
520			_aThe globalisation of political power into structures ‘above’ or ‘beyond’ the nation-state has increasingly been called into question as part of a ‘sovereigntist turn’ in contemporary politics. While such demands for local control by bounded peoples may be democratic, empirically they often also take a nationalist form. Building on Hannah Arendt’s analysis of how ‘the nation conquered the state’, this article argues that the slippage from democratic to national sovereigntism is rooted in fundamental conceptual instabilities within the concept of the nation-state. Whereas the first term in this hyphenated construct favours certain individuals based on their ethnic background, the latter is a universal concept that demands the equal treatment of all. The basic thesis is that these internal contradictions help to explain the nationalist tendency in calls to return political power to the nation-state. It illustrates these points by drawing on examples from the ‘illiberal democracies’ of Central-Eastern Europe, focusing on Poland and Hungary.
598			_aSOVEREIGNTY, POLITICAL POWER, NEWARTICLS
650			_aSOVEREIGNTY
650			_aPOLITICAL POWER
773			_gReview of International Studies, Volume 50, Issue 4, July 2024, pg. 682-699
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