Sue Wright is a lecturer in the School of Language and European Studies at Aston University. Her research interests are multilingualism and language policy in Europe.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Themes of the BookChapter 1 Definitions. Theories of Nationalism and the Role of Language. The Nationalists and Linguistic Nationalism. The Modernists, Industrialisation and Democracy. The Post-Modernists and the Invention of TraditionChapter 2 The Role of Language in Nation State Formation. The Three European Models: Assimilation, Blood and Belonging and Fragmentation.Chapter 3 Language as a Key Organising Principle of Nationalism. Contending Schools in the Debate. The Linguistic Realities of Multilingual States.Chapter 4 The Weakening of the Concept of Sovereignty. Globalisation and Internationalisation in the Legal, Political, Economic and Cultural Domains. The Growing Role of English as the Medium of these Phenomena. Chapter 5 The Growth of the European Community. Theories of Integration. The Role of Language.Chapter 6 Theories of Democracy: Participatory and Liberal Representative Democracy. The Essential Role of Language in Democracy. The Democratic Deficit in the EU and the Need to Develop New Practices for a Multilingual Polity.Chapter 7 Managing Plurilingualism in the Institutions of the EU. Chapter 8 New and Smaller Polities. Europe of the Regions. Support for the Lesser-used Languages of Europe.Chapter 9 Language in the Domains of Defence, Education and Research Networks.Chapter 10 Conclusions.BibliographyIndex