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Aftermath of World War II
Author_Walker Connor
Authoritarianism
Balkanization
Basques
Black nationalism
Bretons
Burgundians
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Colonialism
Communalism (political philosophy)
Comparative advantage
Consent of the governed
Croats
Cultural imperialism
Culture and Society
Decolonization
Demagogue
Despotism
Devolution
Distrust
English Wars (Scandinavia)
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Ethnic group
Ethnic nationalism
Ethnic studies
Flemish Movement
German nationalism
Germans
Good and evil
Illustration
Imperialism
International relations
Irish Catholic
Irredentism
Italians
Karl Deutsch
Lucian Pye
Military occupation
Multiculturalism
Multinational state
Multitude
Myanmar
Nation state
Nation-building
National consciousness
National identity
National symbol
Nationalism
Nationality
Neocolonialism
Patriotism
Plaid Cymru
Plural society
Political decay
Political science
Popular sovereignty
Primordialism
Racism
Romani people
Self-determination
Separatism
Slighting
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Superiority (short story)
The Two Cultures
Walker Connor
War
Warfare
Western Europe
World War II
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780691025636
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications. In these essays, which have appeared over the course of the last three decades, he argues that Western scholars and policymakers have almost invariably underrated the influence of ethnonationalism and misinterpreted its passionate and nonrational qualities. Several of the essays have become classics: together they represent a rigorous and stimulating attempt to establish a secure methodological foundation for the study of a complicated phenomenon increasingly, if belatedly, recognized as the major cause of global political instability. The book opens by reviewing a wide range of scholarship on ethnonationalism. Connor examines nineteenth-and early twentieth-century debate among British scholars on the viability and desirability of the multinational state, the American "nation-building" school of thought that dominated the literature on political development in the post-World War II era, and the recent explosion of literature on ethnonationalism.
In the second part of the book, he shows how progress in the study of ethnonationalism has been hampered by terminological confusion, an inclination to perceive homogeneity even where heterogeneity thrives, an unwarranted tendency to seek explanation for ethnic conflict in economic differentials, and lack of historical perspective. The book closes with a consideration of the inherent limitations of rational inquiry into the realm of group-identity.
Walker Connor is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Among his works is The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton).
