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Patriotism and Internationalism in the ‘Oath of Allegiance’ to Young Europe

Oxford University, UK, karma.nabulsi{at}politics.ox.ac.uk

This article examines the ‘Oath of Allegiance’ of an international semisecret society, Young Europe. The society’s programme defined the struggle to create democratic republics throughout Europe in the first half of the 19th century. Its founding documents and charter in 1834 represented radical shifts in both the ideas and practice of European republicans on the principles of liberty and equality, and in the conceptualization of a trinity that linked republican patriotism to both nationalism and internationalism. The society also offered new understandings of both fraternity and humanity. The doctrine combined the working of international and national organizations as the blueprint with which to construct republics. The emergence of Young Europe signified a change in both the ideological language and in the core values of republicans. It also represented a break in its organizational principles; in its conception of the nation and the nation’s role within the republic; and in the appreciation of the international role of republicans.

Key Words: Europe • internationalism • nationalism • patriotism • republicanism

European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 61-70 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1474885106059066


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