Olivier Legrand

Jamal A. 2004. "The Ambiguities of Minorities Patriotism: Love for Homeland versus State among Palestinian Citizens of Israel. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics,10; 433-471   The State is defined as a Jewish state and is viewed by the Jewish majority as articulating the as articulating the right of self-determination of the Jewish people. p.433   Charles Taylor, modern society exist if patriotism exist   Taylor C. 1996, Why Democracy Need Patriotism' in Cohen J. (ed) For the love of Country, Beacon Press, 119-121   Juergan Habermas 'constitutional patriotism'   Herbermas J. 1998, The inclusion of the other, MIT Press   According to this view, patriotism is both a rational loyalty and an emotional attachment to a common civil enterprise open and equal communicative action between individual. p.435 [...]

Agnew J. (2005), " Sovereign Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics", Annals of The Association of American Geographers, Vol. 95 (2), Blackwell, pp.437-461 I propose a concept of effective sovereignty to argue that states participate in sovereignty regimes that exhibit distinctive combinations of central state authority and political territoriality. Two basic conclusions, drawing from recent research in political geography and other fields, are that sovereignty is neither inherently territorial nor is it exclusively organized on state-by-state basis. This matters because so much political energy has been invested in organizing politics in general and democracy in particular in relation to states. Typically, writing about sovereignty regards sovereignty as providing norm that legitimizes central state authority. Unfortunately, little or no attention is given as to why this should always entail a territorial definition of political [...]

APPENDIX:  MAKING THE LEAP FROM ANALYSIS TO ACTION     Local anti-Imperialist Responses:  Our job is not just to expose elected official who talk the language of inclusion in order to promote acceptance of greater personal sacrifice by both machines, but to make sure their role in preparing the public and local government for intensified imperialist war is  blocked.  Some of the strategies open to us include the following:     1)   Municipal Autonomous Zones?  The local equivalent of autonomous zones, such as co-housing, offers little help in opposing the immediate impacts of the war machine.  While they may give modest relief to those who can forge a cooperative life style, they do not alter any of the domestic or foreign component of imperialism.  In effect, they accept the [...]