The emergence of nationalism as an ideology affecting all world societies followed a parallel course to the nation-states in West. It has been influential shaping political, cultural, and social structures today's societies. Different theories different perspectives have developed explain development its impact on modern nationalist theory, one theoretical approaches explanation nationalism, co...

Pericles Lewis, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is the author of Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on two projects, The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and a book on religious experience in the modernist novel, from which the essay in this issue is drawn. Churchgoing in the Modern N...

The normative binary of ‘good-progressive’ and ‘bad-retrograde’ nationalism, traceable to the civic ethnic dichotomy, is alive well in studies nationalism populism today. This articl...

We live in an unprecedented age of globalization, where technology, ideas, factors of production and goods are increasingly mobile across national boundaries. The current wave of globalization is distinguished from previous ones in part because of the major role of information technology. Nevertheless, globalization is not irreversible. Openness to international trade, …nance and technology is ...

The present study concerns editing of translations in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War,which in the official discourse of the country is known as the Sacred Defense. Itargues that editing, in its local sense, advocated a linguistic purism inspired by aredefined nationalism, which went hand in hand with identity politics andsnowballed into a movement of resistance.

In this study, the relationship between space and geography in composition of nationalism is examined. As a modern ideology, has been most powerful ideology for last two centuries that have shaped world map, constructing identities influencing people’s worlds meaning. Understanding content nationalism, which such essential understanding today’s events. Therefore, present explained through conce...

This is a translation of the article “Nationalism, Modernization and Polylogue Civilizations” by Lithuanian sociologist Vytautas Kavolis. The original was published in English 1991 Comparative Civilizations Review, appeared 1992 journal Proskyna (translated Saulius Spurga). In this Kavolis discusses complex relationship nationalism cultural configurations modernity, postmodernity antimodernist ...

Supported by the EU and the international community, the extraordinary effort of the UN to mediate a settlement of the Cyprus problem before the integration of Cyprus into the EU ended in failure. The two historical highlights that marked the failure of the peace process were the top level talks at The Hague in March 2003 and the Cyprus referendum in April 2004. The purpose of this paper is to ...