Nations Dissolving? Populism, Nationalism, and Emotional Disintegration (original) (raw)

Nationalism and European disintegration

Nations and Nationalism, 2022

The politics of the European Union's crises of the 2010s required the emergence of analyses and theorisation that sought to explain the possibility of European disintegration. This article makes a conceptual contribution to the emerging literature on European disintegration by arguing for the inclusion of nationalism as an important-yet under-represented-variable in the politics and process of disintegration in the European Union. It draws together elements of enduring value in classical explanations of the rise and operation of nationalism in Europe from Ernest Gellner, Tom Nairn and John Breuilly, with a postfunctionalist emphasis on the politicisation of European Union politics at the member-state level. The article concludes that a consideration of nationalism illuminates the process and politics of European disintegration by showing that the politics of European integration in the 2010s created nationalism rather than contained it, as it had been historically designed to do.

FRAGMENTS OF NATIONS AND NATIONALISMS: TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF THE 21 ST CENTURY NATIONALISMS

This paper attempts to provide a typology of state-seeking nationalisms of the 21st century. We collected data using James Minahan's (2002) Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations and from the major newspaper sources with international coverage using Proquest newspaper database from 2000-2010. Based on these data we identified over 300 nations, which demand a state for their own, which have a well-defined territory, has a flag of their own and an organization which demand independence and/or autonomy. This paper examines 174 of these nations which have populations over 1 million. These nations are highly different from each other in terms of their level of mobilization level of militancy, organizational capacity, demands and grievances. Taking these differences into consideration, we established a typology of 21st century state-seeking nationalisms. Our typology, which is inspired by Miroslav Hroch's three phases, is not only descriptive in character but also suggests how nationalist movements evolve and transform in time.

The European Union and First Years AKP: Popular Nationalism in Turkey

2020

Nationalism is one of the important ideologies; it is too difficult to express what nationalism is in one sentence, because it is a multidimensional, debatable ideology. In Turkey, nationalism is also an important issue because of its multi-ethnic and multi-cultural structure. Moreover elites have an important roles on constructing a type of nationalism, especially popular nationalism. Critiques and opposition of the political and intellectual elites against the governmental policies indicated the escalated atmosphere in nationalist discourse in Turkey until 2010. Therefore, this work empowered the theories of popular nationalism, which contribute the relationship between the elites and nationalism to the body of theoretical knowledge. However, some other issues may escalate the popular nationalism in Turkey. Turkish public thinks on that way; 29 percentages of the sample group think that the cause of escalating nationalism in Turkey is PKK terrorism, and secondly 17 percentages of ...

Notes on the Political Economy of Nationalism

1992

The resurgence of nationalism all over the world in the last few years can be said to arise, in every case, from a lack of congruence between "state" and "nation." While each of these terms is highly complex and controversial, we all know the main difference between them. The state is a political and administrative unit, claiming the "monopoly of the legitimate use of force" over all the inhabitants of a given territory.

Nationalism: Is it really all that bad?

The last three decades have witnessed a growing interest in the phenomena of nationalism and national conflicts. Countless scholars from throughout the world have devoted significant time and energy in an effort to grasp the origin, nature and consequences of nationalism and its relations to modern-day politics. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in the last quarter century the study of nationalism has occupied a central position within the social sciences, producing an immense body of literature and provoking fierce debate among scholars. What can we learn from this literature and concomitant debates? Two things immediately come to mind. First, the study of nationalism betrays what were (and still are) the major problems hampering the social sciences – the inability to reach a basic consensus about the nature, meaning, and functions of studied phenomenon and, most importantly, that values, ideology, and taken-for-granted assumptions of individual social scientists play a prom...