The Scottish referendum and waves of secession movements – from Spain’s Catalonia to Turkey and Iraq’s ethnic Kurds – are working in different directions to the world’s status quo sustaining leaders’ hopes for increased centralization and ‘planned’ economic growth. More than half a century after World War II triggered a wave of post-colonial nationalism that changed the map of the world, buried nationalism and ethnic identity movements of various forms are challenging the modern idea of the inviolable unity of the nation-state, not just in Europe, but across the entire world…
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