The Emerging European Supernationalism
Johan Galtung
In both senses of conceiving; laying the basis for its birth, and coming to terms with idea in double sense explicating meaning getting used supernationalism, not only nationalism subnationalism. Nationalism is a state individual collective mind, usually subconscious, retrievable on occasion by leaders oth ers, calling identification say, Britain, France, or Spain (or, more precisely, what elites those countries may be up to). So which differs from relating larger, supernational entity thought as federation superstate, such European Union that now emerging confederal Community. subnationalism, identifies subnational entities Wales, Corsica, Catalonia. The object national, cultural entity, sum total language, religion, shared myths traumas glories; people who are carriers culture space through time. nation-state doctrine concretizes further, identifying territory, demand ing coincidence between territorial borders. At very center institutions state, personifications: emperor, king, president, so on. Above has been linked culture. As it em bodies assumptions about reality; some them, heavily value loaded. all nationalisms cultures but
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