Scottish Exceptionalism? Normative Codes of Scottish Nationalism in the British and EU Crises

Scottish Exceptionalism? Normative Codes of Scottish Nationalism in the British and EU Crises

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Scotland has thus far proved immune to the appeal of right-wing populism present in many European neoliberal democracies.This paper argues that changing tension balances in the crises facing the UK as a union state cannot be reduced to an understanding of the supposedly internal challenge of Scottish sub-state nationalism.Instead duospiritalis.com sub-state nationalism needs to be situated in the shifting long-term, inter-state power balances of Britain as a union state and a rising and falling world power.Such an approach builds on the promise offered by the historical sociology of click here Norbert Elias to account for the over-functioning of the normative humanist we-ideals of Scottish civic nationalism in the British and EU crises.