Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville History and Government Faculty Presentations Department of History and Government 4-2-2013 Compounding the Policy Platform of Independence: Nationalist Party “Diffusion” in Quebec and Flanders Glen M.E. Duerr Cedarville University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/ history_and_government_presentations Part of the European History Commons, and the International and Area Studies Commons Recommended Citation Duerr, Glen M.E., "Compounding the Policy Platform of Independence: Nationalist Party “Diffusion” in Quebec and Flanders" (2013). History and Government Faculty Presentations. 25. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/history_and_government_presentations/25 This Conference Proceeding is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in History and Government Faculty Presentations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Compounding the Policy Platform of Independence: Nationalist Party “Diffusion” in Quebec and Flanders Glen M.E. Duerr Assistant Professor of International Studies Cedarville University
[email protected] Paper presented for the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in San Francisco, California, USA from April 2-5, 2013 1 Abstract The proliferation of nationalist political parties in the developed world continues to challenge the integrity of some of the world’s most stable democracies. In Canada and Belgium, both countries have experienced the challenge of nationalist parties in the province of Quebec and region of Flanders respectively. However, in both cases, there are now at least two nationalist political parties that both support the idea of independence for both Quebec and Flanders.