Title:	Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires
Other Titles:	Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914–1923
Authors:	Roshwald, Aviel
Keywords:	Europe, Eastern – Politics and government – 20th century
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	Nationalism and the idea of the nation-state are among the most pervasive political phenomena of our age and among the least well understood. So interwoven are they with contemporary social, cultural, economic, political, and diplomatic institutions, so deeply embedded in political psychology, so broadly influential in the shaping of human identity and socio-political behavior, that it is almost impossible to tease nationalism apart from the sundry elements with which it interacts or of which it forms part and to study it as a thing unto itself. Is it anideology or an anthropological phenomenon? Is it an outgrowth of liberal democracy or is it inherently intolerant and conducive to authoritarianism? Is it an aspect of modernity or a reaction against it?1 These are stimulating and productive questions to ask, but ones to which there is no definitive response because each of them can be answered both in the affirmative and in the negative,depending on what historical context and which manifestation or form of nationalism one has in mind.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51687
ISBN:	0-203-18772-5
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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