1-Looking back today we can say that the imperial governments were faced with the decision whether to stick to the old principles of legitimacy, or try to create a secular ideology of state to replace the diminishing loyalty to a divinely sanctioned monarch but the Habsburg Emperors and the Ottoman Sultan made no such attempt because loyalty to the dynasty remained until the end the only claim, and the only non-material bond holding diverse subjects together.
2-Instead of mitigating the strains and stresses between the nations and their minorities, the disastrous political frontier-making after World War I only proved that the nation-state principle could not be introduced into Eastern Europe without creating in some cases even more glaring injustices and almost everywhere new hotbeds of nationalist friction.
2007-07-11
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