Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Primary Questions and Hypotheses
- 2 Diasporism and Diasporas in History
- 3 A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Diasporas
- 4 Diasporas in Numbers
- 5 The Making, Development, and Unmaking of Diasporas
- 6 Stateless and State-Linked Diasporas
- 7 Trans-state Networks and Politics
- 8 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Regional Integration
- 9 Loyalty
- 10 Diasporas at Home Abroad
- References
- Index
8 - Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Regional Integration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Primary Questions and Hypotheses
- 2 Diasporism and Diasporas in History
- 3 A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Diasporas
- 4 Diasporas in Numbers
- 5 The Making, Development, and Unmaking of Diasporas
- 6 Stateless and State-Linked Diasporas
- 7 Trans-state Networks and Politics
- 8 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Regional Integration
- 9 Loyalty
- 10 Diasporas at Home Abroad
- References
- Index
Summary
Diasporas and the Current World Order
There is wide consensus among political analysts and scholars that the new world order is leading to a marked decrease in the propensity of nations to go to war and to escalate their quarrels to violent confrontations. Whereas in earlier centuries such wars and confrontations were continual threats to the existence and sovereignty of nation-states, today the sovereignty of most established states seems to be assured. Despite continuing inter-state conflicts and tensions, today the likelihood of conquest and occupation of entire states and their annexation is negligible. That trend is partly attributable to a gradual increase in the number of functioning democracies, which tend not to fight each other, and in most cases they also refrain from the use of violence in their adversarial relations with non-democratic states (Doyle 1986; Maoz and Abdolali 1989; E. Cohen 1990; Maoz and Russet 1991, 1992). It is also attributable in part to the collapse of all empires and to a gradual liberalization and democratization of authoritarian regimes. Such transformations have reduced authoritarian states' inclination to wage war and consequently have reduced the number of instances in which democratic countries have to react to inter-state aggression. Most of those reformed and reforming states accept the new rules of the international game, including respect for states' external sovereignty.
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- Diaspora PoliticsAt Home Abroad, pp. 202 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003