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Max grew up in Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan and the seat of Russian Muslims. He attended Ufa’s Political Science Gymnasium. Max received a BA degree in Political Science Cum Laude from Duke University spending a year abroad in Science Po (Paris). He concentrated on comparative democracies. After a period of time in corporate America (banking, PR and consulting) and the International MBA degree from York University (Toronto) with an exchange program at ESADE (Barcelona), he returned to academia receiving an MA degree in Political Science from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona specializing in ethnic/civic nationalism. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz focusing on ethnic/territorial nationalism and citizenship in post-Soviet countries with frozen territorial conflicts. Max has visited over 140 countries and speaks English, Russian and most modern Romance languages.
Supervisors: Roger Schoenman
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The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it ... more The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it combines territorial collective identity with liberal-democratic values. As such, for example, it does not provide much insight into the comparison of Azerbaijani and Georgian concepts of national identity. Azerbaijan, arguably an authoritarian country, has used unconditional citizenship by birth on territory (jus soli) and refused to naturalize Azeri co-ethnics from Georgia. Georgia, seemingly a developed liberal democracy, hasn't practiced any jus soli, has bestowed citizenship on Georgian co-ethnics abroad and refused it to its ethnic minorities. These two cases testify to the need to revise the term 'civic nationalism', inapplicable to many, especially non-Western, empirical cases of national identity. By establishing distinct historical narratives based on premodernist sources, the article argues that the ethnic/territorial tension is premodern, which explains why civic nationalism has a premodern (territori-ality) and a modern (liberal-democratic values) component. Territorial collective identity, in its contrast to an ethnic one, has deep historical roots and needs to be separated from the overall umbrella of civic nationalism. Such an approach resolves many current theoretical objections to ethnic/civic dichotomy, a ubiquitous, but still insufficiently understood, heuristic tool.
God speaks to the soul, not through the mediation of the priesthood or of social institutions bui... more God speaks to the soul, not through the mediation of the priesthood or of social institutions built up by man, but solus cum solo, as a voice in the heart and in the heart alone. Thus the bridges between the worlds of spirit and of sense are broken, and the soul is isolated from the society of men, that it may enter into communion with its Maker.
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The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it ... more The term 'civic nationalism' as it is used today in nationalism studies is misleading because it combines territorial collective identity with liberal-democratic values. As such, for example, it does not provide much insight into the comparison of Azerbaijani and Georgian concepts of national identity. Azerbaijan, arguably an authoritarian country, has used unconditional citizenship by birth on territory (jus soli) and refused to naturalize Azeri co-ethnics from Georgia. Georgia, seemingly a developed liberal democracy, hasn't practiced any jus soli, has bestowed citizenship on Georgian co-ethnics abroad and refused it to its ethnic minorities. These two cases testify to the need to revise the term 'civic nationalism', inapplicable to many, especially non-Western, empirical cases of national identity. By establishing distinct historical narratives based on premodernist sources, the article argues that the ethnic/territorial tension is premodern, which explains why civic nationalism has a premodern (territori-ality) and a modern (liberal-democratic values) component. Territorial collective identity, in its contrast to an ethnic one, has deep historical roots and needs to be separated from the overall umbrella of civic nationalism. Such an approach resolves many current theoretical objections to ethnic/civic dichotomy, a ubiquitous, but still insufficiently understood, heuristic tool.
God speaks to the soul, not through the mediation of the priesthood or of social institutions bui... more God speaks to the soul, not through the mediation of the priesthood or of social institutions built up by man, but solus cum solo, as a voice in the heart and in the heart alone. Thus the bridges between the worlds of spirit and of sense are broken, and the soul is isolated from the society of men, that it may enter into communion with its Maker.