"Subcontracting" nation-building: the foreign prince in the Romanian parliament, 1866-1867
| Titel: | "Subcontracting" nation-building: the foreign prince in the Romanian parliament, 1866-1867 |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Mannheim : SSOAR, 2009 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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begutachtet (peer reviewed) In: Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review ; 9 (2009) 2 ; 229-257 |
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Abstract: The paper starts from the assumption that 1866 – the year a foreign prince is in-vited to the Romanian throne and a constitutional government is introduced - elevates to the rank of state ideology the discourse of the "unitary nation" that immediately becomes the hegemonic narrative. As early as 1866, at the dawn of mass politics in Romania, the parliamentarians compensate for the late and weak statehood (with internal challenges and separatist movements, and difficult international acknowledgment) with the patriotic rhetoric of national brotherhood and the exclusivist appraisal of "Romanianness". The first part examines the foundations of the new regime, by drawing comparisons with Greece. In May-June 1866 Romania condenses Greece's experience from March 1844 to March 1864. In both cases, the foreign prince from a European royal family (respectively Karl Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Otto von Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria) is considered the price to pay in order to gain |
