Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker’s books include Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany and Nationalism Revisited. He teaches at UCLA.

Was it because of the war? building Europe

Rogers Brubaker, 15 October 1998

For nearly a millennium, European states have been at war with one another. For as Hobbes observed, war

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