Nation and democracy Article 2. The Illusion of a Post-national World and the Crisis in Western Democracies

Pain, Emil; Fedyunin, Sergey

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Nation and democracy Article 2. The Illusion of a Post-national World and the Crisis in Western Democracies

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S086904990011426-0-1

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Authors

Emil Pain

Occupation: Professor
Affiliation: NRU HSE, civil service department
Address: 20, Myasnitskaya st., Moscow, 101000 Russian Federation

Sergey Fedyunin

Occupation: Doctoral student
Affiliation: Centre de recherches Europes-Eurasie, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, INALCO
Address: Paris 63 Rue de Grand Moulins France 75013

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Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost

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Issue 1

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82-99

Abstract

The second article (see article 1 in the previous issue) focuses on relationship between national unity and democracy. In this paper, considering both the EU and the US cases, the authors argue that the maintaining of modern democracy needs the very same background condition, whereas the current crisis in western political system is mainly due to such factors as national deconsolidation, deformation of civic nations and the elitist concept of “post-national” world. The article aims at showing that that idea remains an illusion and investigates its links to other fallacies, namely those about the causes of the national-populist wave, Brexit and the unexpected Trump’s election in the United States. The authors’ approach contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between nationhood, democracy and civil participation, as well as highlights the role of national identity as a key collective identity in the modern world.

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national consent, national identity, democracy, national populism, cosmopolitanism, West, Europe, USA

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10.09.2020

Publication date

29.01.2018

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1148

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GOST	Pain E., Fedyunin S. Nation and democracy Article 2. The Illusion of a Post-national World and the Crisis in Western Democracies // Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost – 2018. – Issue 1 C. 82-99 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://ons-journal.ru/S086904990011426-0-1 (circulation date: 25.04.2024).
MLA	Pain, Emil, Fedyunin, Sergey "Nation and democracy Article 2. The Illusion of a Post-national World and the Crisis in Western Democracies." Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost 1 (2018):82-99.
APA	Pain E., Fedyunin S. (2018). Nation and democracy Article 2. The Illusion of a Post-national World and the Crisis in Western Democracies. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost (1), pp.82-99

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