Ethnoregionalism, Multicultural Nationalism and the Idea of the European Third Way

Abstract

While the idea of a Europe of its peoples, or a post-nation-state

Lev Gumilev and the European New Right

“…This is precisely what is occurring today in Europe, where the indiscriminate acceptance and integration of immigrants from around the world under the aegis of so-called multi-culturalism represent an acute threat to the integrity of Europe's indigenous populations. In the face of the integrationist and assimilationist forces of an inexorably globalizing world, the European New Right advocates the principle of differencialisme, or "differentialism" (Taguieff 1985(Taguieff , 1994Spektorowski 2000Spektorowski , 2007. The "right to be different," it insists, is a fundamental human entitlement.…”

“…Ethnies are not developmentally "higher" or "lower," and they are not more or less civilized. All of them have their own rightful position in the global fabric of ethnic life, and they all share the same entitlements to self-expression, self-determination, and, as we have already seen, the "right to be different" (Laqueur 1996, 99;Karklins 2000;Spektorowski 2003bSpektorowski , 2007. Indeed, the mutuality of the principle of difference provides the most genuine basis for interethnic solidarity, to the extent indeed that the New Right is adamant that the defense of the identities of immigrants and foreigners is no less important than that of indigenous Europeans (de Benoist and Champetier 2000).…”