Title: Nationalism reframed
First published: 1996
Description: The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Nationalism, Politics and government, Nationalism, europe, Europe, eastern, politics and government, 1989-, Europe, politics and government, 20th century, Former soviet republics, politics and government, Nationalism, former soviet republics, Political science
Places: Eastern Europe, Europe, Former Soviet republics
Time periods: 1989-, 20th century
LC classification: DJK51 .B78 1996