ABSTRACT
I have taken my task to be rather more than the provision of some reactions to Brubaker’s chapter because the chapter covers a great number of issues, yet none of them is explored in any depth. We are treated to a suggestive paper, but it is cautious; too cautious for my taste. There are many places where I might have wished to quibble with the author, but the majority of the issues would not have been substantive, which is not to say that there aren’t some crucial issues of substance which have been inadequately treated in other chapters. I had hoped that Brubaker would raise at least a few of these for general discussion. Hence my criticism of the paper is less concerned with what was said than it is with what was not said.
