Prisons of peoples? : empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1925
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0191-4537; 1461-734X
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Philosophy & social criticism, 2024, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 559-570
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JUDSON, Pieter M., Prisons of peoples? : empire, nation and conflict management in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1925, Philosophy & social criticism, 2024, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 559-570 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77881
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Vladimir Putin’s legitimation of Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine raises questions about traditional understandings of nation and empire. Should we contrast the two in terms of values and practices? In this case, Putin uses both nationalist and Imperialist rhetoric to justify his actions. My essay questions how we understand nation and empire using the example of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. How did this empire develop laws, institutions and administrative practices to manage conflicts and claims around language use and nationalism? How did Austria’s governments rule a multi-lingual, multi-confessional society effectively, without resorting to brutal policies of nationalization? When nationalist conflicts arose in different settings, how and why did they originate? I conclude that in European terms, Imperial Austria and even nationalist Hungary apparently managed daily-life issues around diverse language use and religious practice far more humanely and effectively than did the successor nation states after 1918.
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Published online: 21 December 2023