Since the end of the Cold War, nationalist, ethnic, and civic conflicts have proliferated around the globe. Thus, the optimistic notion of the “End of History” has degenerated into a “Clash of Civilizations,” at least according to some prominent thinkers of international relations.1 The United States, the United Nations, and other international actors have been drawn into several of these confl...

The history of nations, beginning with our own, is always already presented to us in the form of a narrative which attributes to these entities the continuity of a subject. The formation of the nation thus appears as the fulfillment of a "project" stretching over centuries, in which there are different stages and moments of coming to self-awareness, which the prejudices of the various historian...

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...