Abstract

ROMAO, Filipe Vasconcelos. The sovereignity concept transformation: the political and legal emergence of the “autonomies-nation” concerning the 1978 Spanish Constitution. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2013, n.39, pp.113-124. ISSN 1645-9199.

This article aims to address how two specific national identities, Basque and Catalan enhanced by their nationalisms and by the Spanish democratization process were able to materialize politically and legally in what is qualified as “autonomies-nation”. To get to the analysis of this case study we start to cover the role of the nation-State and the relationship between the concepts of State and nation. It specially highlights the emergence of new political units, which the author classifies as “autonomies-nation”, which constitute a real challenge to the traditional concept of sovereignty, focusing the Spanish case.

Keywords : Spain; State; sovereignty; “autonomies-nation”.

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