Defining the Sovereign Community : : The Czech and Slovak Republics / / Nadya Nedelsky.

Though they shared a state for most of the twentieth century, when the Czechs and Slovaks split in 1993 they founded their new states on different definitions of sovereignty. The Czech Constitution employs a civic model, founding the state in the name of "the citizens of the Czech Republic,&quo...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2009
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Awakenings
  • Chapter Two: Nation-Building in the Empire's Waning Years
  • Chapter Three: The First Republic: Czechoslovakism and Its Discontents
  • Chapter Four: The Second Republic and the Wartime Slovak State
  • Chapter Five: The Third Republic: "Putting an End to All Old Disputes"
  • Chapter Six: The Communist Period: New Vows
  • Chapter Seven: From Velvet Revolution to Velvet Divorce
  • Chapter Eight: The Implications of the Ethnic Model of Sovereignty in Slovakia
  • Chapter Nine: The Implications of the Civic Model of Sovereignty in the Czech Republic
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments