Postoji li alternativa nacionalnoj drzavi?
Nation building and beyond

Summary/Abstract: In this Rejoinder, the author discusses particular aspects of theory on ethnocultural justice proposed by Will Kymlicka. Kymilicka's assumption that ,,the issue is not, whether states engage in nation-building but rather what kind of nation-building" is rejected since it leaves the theory with ,,only versions of one single alternative to the building of a one-nation state", that is, to erecting, what Kymlicka calls, a 'multination state' which, unlike one-nation states, gives public recognition to minority groups as equal partners in the national community, and provides these groups with the rights and resources necessary for them to prosper. However, nation building, the author argues, presupposes an international regime of nation-states and the division of the world into nation-states is not the only conceivable modern state system. On the one hand, institutions vested with political authority and powers of enforcement, more inclusive than the territorial states, can and do emerge. And, on the other, the global regime of nation-states may be heading towards its end, because it seems to be beyond controversy that there is a tendency of nation-states to adapt to challenges by surrendering to supra-state organizations one chunk of their sovereignty after another. The author follows the argument that ethnocultural justice requires that exclusive jurisdiction sometimes give way to overlapping jurisdictions rejecting possible objection that such a development would be either unfeasible or unattractive. Addressing a different kind of objection, that of practical irrelevance, the author describes the recent evolution in Hungarian nationalism, showing that the perception of the strategic options for the Hungarian nation undergoes significant changes, which are, in their turn, induced by Hungary's getting into the orbit of the European Union.

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