A compilation of original essays dealing with ethnic challenges to the modern nation-state and to modernity itself, on the philosophical, political and social levels. These issues are examined theoretically and in a number of case studies encompassing three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler states in America, Africa and the Middle East, and post-colonial states in Asia and Africa. Contributors come from leading universities in Israel, Europe and North America and from several academic disciplines.

1 Fourteen original essays on the threat to the nation-state from restive ethnic groups2 Case studies cover three types of state: industrialized, settler states and post-colonial3 Contributors from Israel, Europe and North America4 Interdisciplinary

List of Contributors Introduction; S.Ben-Ami PART ONE: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND THE MODERN STATE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Modernity and National Identity; W.Kymlicka Towards the Rehabilitation of 'Nation Building' and the Reconstruction of Nations; R.Kook Culture Is Not Enough: A Democratic Critique of Liberal Multiculturalism; Y.Peled & J.Brunner PART TWO: ETHNIC STRIFE AND THE STATE OF WESTERN EUROPE Catalan and Basque Nationalism: Contrasting Patterns; S.G.Payne Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Society in Germany; M.Zuckerman The New Right and the Intellectual Elaboration of Ethnic Europe: From Racism to the Politics of Differentialism; A.Spektorowski PART THREE: ETHNIC CHALLENGES IN SETTLER STATES Minority Protest and the Emergence of Ethnic Regionalism: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli 'Ethnocracy'; O.Yiftachel Nationalism and Non-racialism in South Africa; G.Shafir Rethinking Multinational Space: The Quebec Referendum and Beyond; A.G.Gangon Modernity, Premodernity and the Political: The Neozapatistas of Southern Mexico; E.Herrán Control and Resistance: Two Dimensions of Palestinians' Existence in Israel; A.H.Sa'di PART FOUR: ETHNIC CONFLICT IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES The Resurgence of Ethnohinduism - A Theoretical Perspective; O.Shani Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa; B.Neuberger Islamism and Democracy in Algeria; G.M.Munoz Index