England and the Need for Nations, by Roger Scruton

nick cowen, 20 February 2012

England and the Need for Nations, the classic Civitas pamphlet by world-renowned philosopher, Roger Scruton, has been long out of print but continues to be available as a Kindle ebook. As the European Union sweeps away the national sovereignty of Eurozone members in an attempt to save the Euro, its central message remains as important as ever, but all the more urgent:

The nation state provides us with the surest model for peace, prosperity, and the defence of human rights. In spite of this, the idea of the nation state is under attack, derided as a cause of conflict, and destined to be replaced by more ‘enlightened’ forms of jurisdiction. This is in spite of the fact that all recent attempts to transcend the nation state into some kind of transnational political order have ended up either as totalitarian dictatorships like the former Soviet Union or as unaccountable bureaucracies like the European Union.

For more information and extracts from the pamphlet visit this page on the Civitas website.