Tom Nairn is Research Professor in the Politics Department of Durham University and was a Professor of Nationalism and Social Diversity at Austrailia's RMIT 2002 - 2010
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Published in: HomeHooligans of the Absolute: Black Pluto's door after 11 SeptemberThe impulse of the attacks was not confidence but despair – the strike of a miserable old world against the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew faces of nationalism
Around the globe, new forms of governance are being sought to counter-balance the hyper-empire of global capitalism....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill Britain ever shake the ghost of Empire?
Reflections on Jeremy Paxman's book, 'Empire: What ruling the world did to the British'.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Republican Monarchy? England and revolution
The author of the first major contemporary critique of the monarchy looks over his argument as Scotland moves...
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Published in: HomeThe prophet redeemed?Ernest Gellner was a polymath and a public intellectual, a philosopher and defender of modernity. A remarkable...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to Call it a Day: Sometimes it is right for a country to recognise that its job is done
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel...