Nationalism has been the major cause of wars since time immemorial and most pronounced it was World War I. Although rhetoric nationalism is seemingly less used after wars, because adopted a new name, ‘self-determination’ – as enshrined in UN Charter, Chapter I article 1 –, remains background many political discussions today we continually see global rise collectivism, marked by religious fundam...

This article reviews how major theorists of nationalism – from Ernest Renan to Benedict Anderson – have tried to come to grips with the puzzle that Swiss nationalism and the Swiss state present in view of the monoethnic states that surround it. I will argue that this puzzle disappears when assuming a political sociology perspective that highlights the networks of political alliances underlying ...

The dramatic resurgence of Negro nationalism, its emergence as a viable, authentic trend is one of the most significant developments of the present day Negro freedom scene. With the appearance of the Black Muslims, its most articulate and best organized manifestation, Negro Nationalism, for the first time since the Garvey movement, has attained the significance of a major mass trend. It is havi...

In German history, nationalism is the key to understanding the people and their history. The problem is that many see German nationalism as the events leading up to and following National Socialism, or Nazism. Others ignore the other major events in Germany’s history or see them as insignificant in comparison. It is true that Hitler and the Nazis were a major component in German history and it ...

The study problematizes the sociological/political/psychological/genetic aspects of neo-racism and nationalism their conflict consequences. It aims to unlock points within peace philosophy enlightenment. paper argues that contemporary sociopolitics, as an expression neoliberalism, globalization, radical nationalism, supremacy, maintain archaic conflicting ideological, racial antagonistic, natio...

For decades, nationalism research had been dominated by historical approaches that viewed the nation state as the product of economic and political forces channelled by elite actors. Once institutionalized, nationalism was seen as a fait accompli, except in unstable states, where fringe radicals and separatists occasionally disrupted the national equilibrium. This scholarly consensus was challe...

By nuancing the politics of consumption in the context of austerity, this paper highlights the rise of economic nationalism and the reconfiguration of consumer cultures at the aftermath of the global financial crisis. As it argues, in the context of Greece, three types of consumer cultures have manifested evoking consumption as resilience, resistance, or reinforcement. This work focuses on the ...

Historians have often argued that nationalism spread from elite groups to larger populations through public media, yet this has never been empirically proven. In this paper, we propose to study discourse in Dutch public media around events that have been associated with the rise of Dutch nationalism in the current academic discussion. We will use both traditional methods and data mining techniq...