Economic Integration and the Politics of Independence

Meadwell, Hudson; Martin, Pierre

doi:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1996.00067.x

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“…The move to support for free trade nonetheless represents a new form of nationalism, detaching it from economic protectionism (Meadwell 1993;Martin 1995;Meadwell and Martin 1996). It also represents a shift in the historic nationalist mission in all three, but especially in Quebec and Catalonia and opens up a range of policy options and considerable scope for functional independence from the state.…”

Section: The Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stateless Nation‐Building: Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland in the Changing State System

Keating

1997

Nations and Nationalism

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The reconfiguration of political space is bringing about new forms of territorial politics. The meanings of nationalism and the state are being transformed and new types of autonomist movement are emerging. These are often seen as a resurgence of ethnicity, or as attempts to recreate mini nation-states fragmented from the existing ones. Mainstream political science tends to regard them negatively. It is argued that the resurgence of minority nationalism is also a response to the needs for collective action in a world of weakened nation-states. New forms of collective identity and action are emerging which recognise the limitations of traditional sovereignty and the necessary interdependence of the contemporary world. There is much that is new here, but also much that has always been present but has been lost in the state-centred perspective of political science. The argument is illustrated by an examination of three of the most electorally successful nationalist movements in the Western world, in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland. These are seen not as classic nationalist movements but as nation-building projects which recognise the limitations of the nation-state formula and are engaged in 'stateless nation-building'. This project is difficult to translate into constitutional terms or to reconcile with the model of the state prevailing in the respective majority communities. The nation-state debateSince the 1980s, there has been a vigorous debate on the future of the nation-state. On the one hand are those who argue that economic change, technology and the rise of international regimes are rendering the nationstate redundant. On the other are those who point to the explosion of nationalist movements in the contemporary world and the proliferation of new 'nation-states'. The problem, as so often in social science, is that terms are being used very loosely and stretched too far. Scholars are too often

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Section: The Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stateless Nation‐Building: Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland in the Changing State System

Keating

1997

Nations and Nationalism

127

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“…Th e fi rst argues that globalization is undermining the economic value of the nation-state both by increasing the importance of supra-national organizations such as the EU and by increasing the importance of sub-national regions as targets of investment and trade. 11 According to some, globalization is making separatism more viable because it lowers the cost of exit (Meadwell and Martin 1996;Shulman 2000;Allesina and Spolaore 2003). Smaller states need not worry about the perils of autarky if they can plug into the global economy to access capital, benefi t from economies of scale, and leverage their comparative advantage.…”

Section: Globalization and State Sizementioning

confidence: 97%

Globalization and Separatism: The Influence of Internal and External Interdependence on the Strategies of Separatism

Savic

Griffiths²

2009

Perspect Global Dev Technol

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At the heart of all separatist movements is the idea that the community in question would be better off handling its own aff airs, including its economic aff airs. Th e existence of economic globalization introduces a paradox: secession cannot produce full autonomy in economic matters because states with smaller economies tend to have less policy autonomy. Th is paper argues that separatist movements will use very diff erent strategies depending on the level of external (supra-national) and internal (sub-national) economic integration. Separatist groups in developed states (which tend to be integrated both at the domestic and international level) are more likely to look to political means and to support supra-national economic institutions to reduce their dependence on the central government, while such groups in developing countries (which tend to have lower levels of both types of integration) are more likely to use traditional, often violent, means of achieving independence. We test these arguments by examining the strategies of long standing separatist movements in Scotland, Quebec, Biafra and Tamil Eelam.

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“…1 See, for example, Brawley (1993); Conybeare (1987); Dombrowski (1998); Grieco (1990); Meadwell and Martin (1996);Sandler (1997). 2 In New Zealand, a reforming government after 1983 imposed severe rent reductions on the agricultural sector.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Signaling and Tariff Policy: The Strategic Multistage Rent Reduction Game

2003

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This study uses a game-theoretic analysis to suggest that governments can minimize the political risks associated with significant liberalization of trade by employing a multistep process in the reduction of state-supplied rents. The model argues that when governments precede significant reductions in state-supplied rents with a smaller reduction, or with a reduction that can be portrayed credibly as externally imposed, they may be in a position to evaluate, and hence mitigate, costs associated with significant trade liberalization. Substantive implications are explored in the context of United States trade policy and the still-curious ability of the Franklin Roosevelt administration to engage in strategic rent reductions without suffering meaningful political backlash.

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Economic Integration and the Politics of Independence

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Stateless Nation‐Building: Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland in the Changing State System

Stateless Nation‐Building: Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland in the Changing State System

Globalization and Separatism: The Influence of Internal and External Interdependence on the Strategies of Separatism

Signaling and Tariff Policy: The Strategic Multistage Rent Reduction Game

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