What if there was an English man who decided that people in English speaking countries should be a "people" who wanted to be accepted as English but, otherwise, did not expect anything from their nation ..and he would run a population of immigrants through English speaking countries every four years while knocking off graduate classes composed of 10th generation, 100th generation and 2nd generation graduates before they could expect anything and the old people who only finished grade 8 in the 1960's don't want their sons or daughters to tell them anything so that as old people they will see their authority...and live longer than his children and raise the grand children without his children around to tell him any thing?? Expectations.....expectations....? Do you expect a phone call and a legal representative? If you don't, you won't ask for one. Do you expect minimum income support at financial levels that do satisfy the guaranteed requisites of life to be provided by the government? If you don't you disappear and other nations will take your territory. Many people are displaced natives absorbed in black or white or in Islam or Hinduism since we see that all people, not just displaced people, need community and in spite of religious affiliations, all people need a nation. Every faith in Israel is in China and all Chinese people, regardless of complexion, have a basic income. In the footsteps of Karl Deutsch: On nationalism, self-determination and international relations Article in International Relations 28(3):313-332 · September 2014 with 3 Reads · Download citation DOI: 10.1177/0047117814545950 Kamila Stullerova Abstract The article argues that Karl Deutsch’s work on nationalism is not only a precursor to his ‘security communities’ but that it is central to his international relations (IR). Nationalism impacts what people expect from the state and influences the state’s international behaviour. While these processes are mostly automatic and cannot be controlled, their trajectories are not fully determined. Deutsch is interested in theorising moments when automatic processes do not suffice or become harmful and intervention is needed. The article first introduces Deutsch as a theorist of nationalism, examining his contribution in the context of the field of nationalism studies and the reasons for his equivocal reception in this field. In its second part, the article makes sense of the legacy of Deutsch’s work on nationalism for contemporary IR by focusing on his use of the notion of self-determination with which Deutsch transcends the normative imperatives of the narrower concept of national self-determination.

What if there was an English man who decided that people in English speaking countries should be a "people" who wanted to be accepted as English but, otherwise, did not expect anything from their nation ..and he would run a population of immigrants through English speaking countries every four years while knocking off graduate classes composed of 10th generation, 100th generation and 2nd generation graduates  before they could expect anything and the old people who only finished grade 8 in the 1960's don't want their sons or daughters to tell them anything so that as old people they will see their authority...and live longer than his children and raise the grand children without his children around to tell him any thing??  Expectations.....expectations....?  Do you expect a phone call and a legal representative? If you don't, you won't ask for one. Do you expect minimum income support at financial levels that do satisfy the guaranteed requisites of life to be provided by the government? If you don't you disappear and other nations will take your territory. Many people are displaced natives absorbed in black or white or in Islam or Hinduism since we see that all people, not just displaced people, need community and in spite of religious affiliations, all people need a nation. Every faith in Israel is in China and all Chinese people, regardless of complexion,  have a basic income.  

In the footsteps of Karl Deutsch: On nationalism, self-determination and international relations

Article in International Relations 28(3):313-332 · September 2014 with 3 Reads · Download citation

DOI: 10.1177/0047117814545950

Kamila Stullerova

Abstract

The article argues that Karl Deutsch’s work on nationalism is not only a precursor to his ‘security communities’ but that it is central to his international relations (IR). Nationalism impacts what people expect from the state and influences the state’s international behaviour. While these processes are mostly automatic and cannot be controlled, their trajectories are not fully determined. Deutsch is interested in theorising moments when automatic processes do not suffice or become harmful and intervention is needed. The article first introduces Deutsch as a theorist of nationalism, examining his contribution in the context of the field of nationalism studies and the reasons for his equivocal reception in this field. In its second part, the article makes sense of the legacy of Deutsch’s work on nationalism for contemporary IR by focusing on his use of the notion of self-determination with which Deutsch transcends the normative imperatives of the narrower concept of national self-determination.