TY - JOUR
AU - Heathcote, Nina
AB - and Nation-building United Nations Heathcote* Nina Is "nation-building" an effective new technique for maintaining stability in international politics? After the last war nationalism appeared to be in decline. The resurgence of the two superpowers and the accompanying decrease of importance of the European states (for long, the nation states of the modern world), led many, particularly in the West, to believe that the end of nationalism was at hand. There was also moral revulsion against the nation state, which was credited with an essentially evil character-responsible, it was supposed, for two world wars and bound to cause more. As a more viable alternative to the post-war polarization of power, as NATO and the which had been reflected in such alliances Warsaw Pact, it was thought that the number of states should best be reduced so as to form larger units, i.e. regional rather than national groupings. The European Economic Community (EEC) was a striking expression of this sort of thinking.1 The United Nations somewhat mitigated such general deni- gration of the nation state. The Charter, for example, Articles 39 (Chapter VII) and 99 (Chapter XV) seems to assume that all the world's populated territories are (or will come to 
TI - United Nations and Nation-Building
JF - International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis
DO - 10.1177/002070206502000102
DA - 1965-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/united-nations-and-nation-building-cgTE0Cm70w
SP - 20
EP - 32
VL - 20
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -