international issues.16 This has led to the rise of new forms of nationalism. As David McCrone has suggested, some forms of contemporary nationalism have shifted from emphasizing ties of ethnicity, sharing a common descent, language, culture or even religion, to defining a nation in terms of territoriality, living and working together in a common area: This is a plea for new forms of self-determination, of limited autonomy, and self-managing communities, based on the rights of people to govern themselves.