The need to call a place home is a very familiar desire. National citizenship can be thought of as a unique status which offers people unbridled access to this peace of mind. Because the nation is the source of this comfort, it is not surprising that people take pride in it. But nationalism stems from the abstract, purely ideological form of a nation. This concrete-less nationalism has been a k...

D its fundamental role in legitimizing the modern state system, nationalism has rarely been linked to the outbreak of political violence in the recent literature on ethnic conflict and civil war. to a large extent, this is because the state is absent from many conventional theories of ethnic conflict. indeed, some studies analyze conflict between ethnic groups under conditions of state failure,...

Spring | Summer 2010 121 This article analyzes the dynamics of development, democracy, and conflict in Georgia, focusing on variation in state capacity, political institutions and varieties of nationalism. Whereas Georgia’s ethnic nationalism substituted for political institutions in the 1990s, the state’s enhanced administrative capacities after 2003 inhibited it from returning to ethnic natio...

This paper reports a secondary analysis carried out on Danish CivEd data from the upper secondary population. The analysis is of significance to the reported civic international research in two ways. First, by defining the school class as the research unit instead of the individual pupil. Second, by constructing six new attitude scales to describe the classes in ways which relate to the values ...

In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...

The Confederate state exploited soldiers’ wives’ special social status, Kristen Brill exposes in Weaker Sex: Gender and Nationalism Civil War Virginia. However, also explains that soldiers wives leveraged their status to advance own personal interests, though political rights were not among the interests they pursued. Reviewer J. Matthew Ward writes “artfully how Southern white women could tran...

At the time of writing, the United Kingdom is grabbling with its decision to abandon its European Union membership. As the country is divided and hate incidents are increased by almost 50%, this think-piece presents a critical analysis of Europe’s missed opportunity for social justice. The paper presents evidence by analysing the civil and political rights jurisprudence of the European Court of...