The article draws on Hansen and Wæver’s three-layered framework of state-nation-Europe, applies it to Slovenia Croatia. aim is examine how nation- state-building affect these countries’ Europeanization before after EU accession. novelty the contribution specific attention paid post-Yugoslav space as a reference for state-building. Our findings underline that Slovenian Croatian state-nation conc...

Nation building is a multifaceted and never ending process. It can be about national identity (Shore and Wright 1997:24-29; May 2003:1) and common symbols and rituals (Hansen and Stepputat 2001; Comaroff and Comaroff 2001:37-40) or, on the contrary, it can be about the official recognition of diversity (Van Cott 2000). It is about a shared history, but also about the invention of tradition and ...

Dædalus Summer 2004 Jesus Christ is George W. Bush’s favorite political philosopher–or so he said in a Republican primary debate leading up to his nomination. And the president’s sense of mission runs deep. Speaking with evangelical zeal well over a year before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush delivered one of his earliest and most broadly appealing justi1⁄2cations for the project of global...

extended abstract 1. introduction the term “state” owing to its simultaneous presence in two epistemological and scientific fields named political science and political geography has assumed multiple meanings, applications, natures and synonyms, in a way that it has stirred a kind of chaos and lack of consensus, especially among political geographers. according to various texts, “state” is an a...

Introduction Historically human societies have never collectively organized, politically or socially, in any singular, standardized and/or universal way. Beginning with the Peace of Westphalia in 1647 the nation-state gradually proliferated as a legitimate manifestation of collective human organization at a global level. This proliferation has culminated in the standardization of a singular mea...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role that the nation-state plays on the behaviour of the transnational companies (TNCs) and how it affects our view of TNCs as efficiency versus strategy driven. Design/methodology/approach – Starts with a brief historical analysis of the main theories of international production and the TNCs to which it then relates the role of the nation-s...

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European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724 USA NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York NY 10016 USA College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens NY 11439 USA Lawrence Berkeley National Lab...

Based on information from the state tumor registry, the Florida Cancer Data System, approximately 99,100 new cases of cancer will have been diagnosed in Florida in 1997, or approximately one new case diagnosed every five minutes. Although this makes Florida the state with the third highest number of cases in the nation, the state actually has the highest crude incidence rate in the nation. In F...

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond the nation-state. The legitimacy of transnational (i.e., European and international) organizations, ...