The Government's wish list for EU reform includes an opt-out from closer nation-state union inside the EU, changes to the way work benefits apply to EU migrants and an easing of the way Brussels enforces EU legislation on member-state parliaments.
In this context, Zapata-Barrero argues for the need to adopt national civic integration policies to counter 'boundless multiculturalism' (p.5) and Modood claims that "minority accommodation is to take place in an ongoing historic nation-state, multiculturalizing it from the inside" (p.10).
The protection of the inside, the nation-state and its people, from the outside, usually seen as dangerous and unknown entities, is an age-old preoccupation of governments.
The position, though, is consistent with the argument Huntington made in "The Clash of Civilizations" — the argument that nation-states ought to remain inside their own cultural boxes.
"At the same time," said Hugo Brady, a senior research fellow in Brussels at the Center for European Reform, "free movement, passport-free travel, which didn't even exist inside nation-states a few years ago, are huge achievements.
What might be in store for us is not a conflict among civilizations as predicted by Samuel Huntington, but a kind of civil war inside nation-states and communities between those who lose their privileged position and those who will not give up the fight for equal rights.
Like it or not, at this moment IS is effectively running a proxy nation inside two recognised nation-states, with their eyes laser-focused on expansion.
Like it or not, at this moment IS is effectively running a proxy nation inside two recognized nation-states, with their eyes laser-focused on expansion.
Comparing the citizenship relations established between the worker and their organization with those held between members of civil society and the nation-state, it is noticeable that inside the organization people tend to feel the necessity of being proactive, participating in the organization, performing duties and contributing with the well-being of co-workers.
Scotland in Britain and Catalonia in Spain illustrates this by continually requesting to vote on secession or at least to get another 'deal' inside the nation-state.
