SHLOMO BEN-AMI is Professor of Modern History and holds the Elias Sounasky Chair for Iberian and Latin American Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has been a member of the Knesset since 1996 and a Cabinet Minister since 1999.YOAV PELED is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He has held appointments at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva and visiting appointments at UCLA, University of California. He is the author of Class and Ethnicity in the Pale.ALBERTO SPECTOROWSKI is Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University.

• List of Contributors Introduction; S.Ben-Ami PART ONE: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND THE MODERN STATE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Modernity and National Identity; W.Kymlicka Towards the Rehabilitation of 'Nation Building' and the Reconstruction of Nations; R.Kook Culture Is Not Enough: A Democratic Critique of Liberal Multiculturalism; Y.Peled & J.Brunner PART TWO: ETHNIC STRIFE AND THE STATE OF WESTERN EUROPE Catalan and Basque Nationalism: Contrasting Patterns; S.G.Payne Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Society in Germany; M.Zuckerman The New Right and the Intellectual Elaboration of Ethnic Europe: From Racism to the Politics of Differentialism; A.Spektorowski PART THREE: ETHNIC CHALLENGES IN SETTLER STATES Minority Protest and the Emergence of Ethnic Regionalism: Palestinian-Arabs in the Israeli 'Ethnocracy'; O.Yiftachel Nationalism and Non-racialism in South Africa; G.Shafir Rethinking Multinational Space: The Quebec Referendum and Beyond; A.G.Gangon Modernity, Premodernity and the Political: The Neozapatistas of Southern Mexico; E.Herrán Control and Resistance: Two Dimensions of Palestinians' Existence in Israel; A.H.Sa'di PART FOUR: ETHNIC CONFLICT IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES The Resurgence of Ethnohinduism - A Theoretical Perspective; O.Shani Ethnic Groups and the State in Africa; B.Neuberger Islamism and Democracy in Algeria; G.M.Munoz Index