Research project on nation-state crisis
http://www.nationstatecrisis.org/
The core of this research is aimed at reconstructing the collective problems related to the crisis of the nation-states and the establishment and development of the instituting order in Africa, America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and then build, by means of a disaggregated examination of features, the matrix of its legitimating function and its connection to the Great Tales that make up the Official Histories.
This Program or Proposal raises the question of whether the first absolutist empires that fell apart (the Spanish, the Ottoman, the Habsburg, the Tzarist, the Qing) could be compared among them and to the first modern European empires (the British, the French, the Dutch, the Belgian), and the last modern empires (Soviet Union, China). We also argue that the formation of the nation-states and their crises, which are currently taking place in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Levant (West Asia), could be mutually compared.
It seems to us that these crises are a current global phenomenon that cannot be studied in isolation. Apparently, they were originated in the particular way in which those empires collapsed.
