Nation and Democracy. Perspectives of Managing Cultural Diversity

Throughout the XX and early XXI century. There was a testing of the idea of ​​a nation. The question has been raised repeatedly: is the nation is now needed? Many intellectuals proclaimed the offensive of the post -national world, and the national organization of society - a finally outdated principle. Unaggrading this position, the authors of this book emphasize that the synthesis of liberalism and democracy is impossible without a link of their link - a civilian nation. The latter is understood as fellow citizenship and the embodiment of the principle of popular sovereignty, i.e. as a society that has mastered the state for the realization of public and in this sense of national interests.
Today we see that democracy does not take root in the fragmented by the ethnic and tribal attribute of the countries of Asia and Africa. In Russia, where the formation of a political nation is complicated by the reproduction of the imperial syndrome, and national unity is imitated, democratic institutions are very unstable and fragmentary, in the countries of the European Union and the United States, a crisis of national-civil identity ("uprising of the elites" and “populism of the masses”) has been manifested at the turn It is associated with erosion of democratic principles, enhancing the political positions of non -poolists. The authors offer a comparative analysis of the features of national-political trends in Russia and Europe in the face of general challenges, primarily the growth of cultural diversity and the facies.
The book can be of interest both for scientists in the field of social sciences and persons who make decisions and for the general public