civic nationalism

is the belief in the necessity of nations and, in contrast to ethnic nationalism, a belief in the duty of citizens to defend the capacity of nations to provide the security and the rights we all need in order to live cosmopolitan lives.

Ignatieff can thus state: 'I am a civic nationalist, someonewho believes in the necessity of nations and in the duty of citizens to defend the capacity ofnations to provide the security and the rights we all need in order to live cosmopolitan lives' (ignatieff rights of revolution p.14)

civic nationalism, n.Definitions

civic nationalism