SELS 2013

Michael Goldfarb: 'What is a Nation? National Identity and the Nation State in the 21st Century'

For two decades Michael Goldfarb covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Northern Ireland that had at their core people's frustrated sense of nationhood.

As Scots debate their national status in earnest, he looks back at the lessons he learned covering these wars and asks whether the nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries will meet people's needs in the 21st.

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