Abstract Is Russia a neoimperial or postimperial state? In this paper, I compare two interpretations proposed by political commentators Marcel Van Herpen and Dmitri Trenin. holds that the Russian empire is literally being rebuilt, whereas Trenin believes just ceasing to be an empire. argue that, contrary popular belief, current war against Ukraine cannot interpreted as attempt restore This beca...

This introduction to the themed section 'Beyond Binaries of Nationalism' critically reviews use binaries in nationalism studies. It identifies a lack precision ideal types as key failing, and points new conceptions types. The contributions question reification binaries, most especially western/eastern civic/ethnic their attendant biases, instead emphasize certain ideological fluidity character ...

The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and I...

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated with an inherited ethnic trait (‘‘nationality’’) and one with an endogenous achievement trait (‘‘inco...

In her article "Anti-Nationalism in Scott's Old Mortality," Montserrat Martínez García examines national identity through war in Walter Scott's Old Mortality in order to illustrate that war was one of the main catalysts of nationhood and show, simultaneously, the disparity between the institutional and the popular attitude toward war. Martínez García pays attention to the way Scott portrayed wa...

mohammed moftahh rajab al-fituri is a major african poet with such an unprecedented sphere of knowledge and artifice who has praised revolutions and immortalized the free spirit of heroism in africa and the arab world. alfiturihas composed odes on many causes covering lebanon, palestine, and iraq wherein he calls upon nations to struggle for their freedom and to fight submission and slavery. al...

This article is concerned with the contested nature of nationalism expressed through sport. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang offers some useful episodes where I can investigate a different type Korean represented At this Olympics, observed four distinctive discourses on identity being displayed via winter sporting competition: 1) unified ethnic nationalism, 2) South state patriotic ...