Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Nationalist ideologies - a normative typology -- Cultural nationalism and statist nationalism -- Liberal and non-liberal nationalisms -- Nationalisms and the state -- Nationalisms and ethnicity -- Some sociological and normative theories of nationalism -- 2 The liberal foundations of cultural nationalism -- The adherence thesis -- The freedom-based argument -- The identity-based argument -- Cultures of origin versus cultures of people's endeavours -- The historical thesis -- Freedom, identity and the historical thesis -- People's interest in the meaningfulness of their endeavours -- Some additional points pertaining to the historical thesis -- The political thesis -- Four types of cultural rights -- Self-government versus polyethnic rights: best and second-best protection -- Self-government versus polyethnic rights: protecting different interests -- National groups without potential for self-government -- Conclusion -- 3 National self-determination -- Self-determination and constitutional morality -- The statist conception and domestic justice -- The statist conception and global justice -- The interests in national self-determination -- The statist conception: intra-national considerations -- A sub- and inter-statist conception of self-determination -- The sub-statist conception and social cohesion - revisiting statist nationalism -- 4 Historical rights and homelands -- Introduction: two conceptions of historical rights -- First occupancy -- First occupancy as grounds for sovereignty -- Grounds for determining the location of a people's self-determination -- The right to formative territories -- Grounds for territorial sovereignty -- Grounds for determining the site of self-determination -- 5 Nationalism and immigration.

Nationality-based immigration and racism -- Nationality-based immigration - the statist conception -- Nationality-based immigration - the sub-statist conception -- Israel's Law of Return -- The nationality-based principles of immigration - some possible objections -- 6 Nationalism, particularism and cosmopolitanism -- Ethical universalism and national particularism -- Partiality towards one's group -- The partiality of institutions towards group members -- Particularism cum universalism -- Cultural cosmopolitanism and particularism -- Cultural cosmopolitanism and particularism - the theoretical conflict -- Cultural particularism and cosmopolitanism - the practical conflict -- A note on cosmopolitan and particularist approaches to distributive justice -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.