Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The themes of the book -- Chapter 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 tradition -- Chapter 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 -- Bibliography -- Index