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Center for Nationalism Studies (CNS) is an independent think-tank & consultancy that provides expert analyses of political, international, and geopolitical issues caused by or related to nationalism.

CNS creates and delivers case-studies and assessments, academic publications, webinars and online lectures, unveiling the role of nationalism in international relations.

The expertise that CNS provides, consisting of adequate understanding and reliable forecasting of international developments triggered by nationalism, can significantly contribute to early prevention, appropriate management and rapid resolution of international conflicts and problems.

Moran M. Mandelbaum
The Gellnerian modality revisited: towards a ‘genealogy’ of cultural homogenization and nation-state congruency

This paper re-evaluates Ernest Gellner’s theory of nations and nationalism and particularly his conceptions of cultural homogenization and congruency.
The paper shows how Gellner’s historical and epistemological stance
naturalizes homogenization processes and rationalizes modern history as an inevitable trajectory of congruency making of states and nations.

Siniša Malešević
‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans

The paper zooms in on the changing dynamics of imperial and national legacies by exploring how specific social movements strategically deploy concepts such as the ‘small’ or ‘greater’ nation to facilitate different nationalist projects. By contrasting the historical experiences of the Balkan states and Ireland I show how geopolitical and historical contexts shape the complex and contradictory relationships between imperial and the national projects.

Anis Bajrektarević
Of Health and Nuclear Holocaust (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)

For months, many argue that our Covid (C-19) response is a planetary fiasco, whose size is yet to surface with its mounting disproportionate and enduring secondary effects, causing tremendous socio-economic, demographic and cross-generational, political and psychosomatic contractions and convulsions. However, worse than our response is our silence about it.

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Daniele Conversi
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Nationalism

The exaltation of a dominant nation as superior to all others, particularly subaltern groups, inevitably leads to a series of discriminatory acts against competing nations, ranging from assimilation and marginalization to genocide.

opinions

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Zlatko Hadžidedić
Why the Taliban Had to Change

Indeed, how can the Taliban remain the same, if the entire world has changed so profoundly, comparing the year of 2001, when the Taliban were overthrown by the US forces, with the year of 2021, when the US forces withdrew before the Taliban’s advance? No matter how rigid they are in their faith as a religious movement, the Taliban as a political organization had no choice but to adapt to the tide of change, if they wanted to seize and exercise power in a changed geopolitical context.

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Supremacy or Property, at the Roots of Identity?

If we look at the original concept of the American nation, the one framed by the Founding Fathers, to which Trump’s supporters refer as their guiding light, it is not based on the idea of inherent racial superiority. It is rather based on the idea of private property: the white Anglo-Saxons who founded the American nation did not perceive themselves as legitimate founders because of their declared racial superiority over the native inhabitants of America, but because they were the first to appropriate the land, having introduced the concept of its private possession, a concept that was totally unknown to the native Americans.

Gabriel Schober
The Pandemic’s Impact on the 2021 German Elections

The Greens present their vision of the future as one of clean energy, no pollution, everything recyclable, ethical industry and technology – resulting in a clean and futuristic world with clean air and waters, clean streets, better living and more hygienic working conditions, where everything is organized perfectly and there are no worries about climate change, pandemics, or any other threat, brought upon the world by the greedy, old industrialists of the past. A perfect antidote to the dirty and chaotic reality imposed on us by the pandemic.

Readings

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Ian O’Flynn and Didier Caluwaerts
Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies

There are many reasons why democracy is difficult in societies deeply divided along ethnic lines.

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Jonathan M. Acuff
Modernity and Nationalism

This review essay surveys scholarly work from the nineteenth century to the present concerning the relationship between modernity and nationalism and its effects on how scholars view the constitutive and causal significance of nationalism for international politics.

Ashok Swain
Hindu Nationalists Back Macron, Not on Free Speech but on Islamophobia

In the past six years under the Modi regime, India has become a world leader in lynching. A group that promotes and celebrates the lynching of people in the name of religious sentiments in its own country has no moral right to criticise the fanatics who kill in other countries in the name of defending their religion.

Michaelangelo Anastasiou
The spatiotemporality of nationalist populism and the production of political subjectivities

While recent research has made progress in analytically disentangling “nationalism” from “populism”, the question that is left unanswered is why, from an empirical standpoint, populist movements typically impinge on national(ist) modalities.

Analysis

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Moran M. Mandelbaum
The Gellnerian modality revisited: towards a ‘genealogy’ of cultural homogenization and nation-state congruency

Siniša Malešević
‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans

Anis Bajrektarević
Of Health and Nuclear Holocaust (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)

Daniele Conversi
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Nationalism

opinions

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Germany and its neo-imperial quest

Germany’s policy towards Bosnia, exercised mostly through the institutions of the European Union, has continuously been based on the concept of Bosnia’s ethnic partition. The phrases that we can occasionally hear from the EU, on inviolability of state boundaries in the Balkans, is just a rhetoric adapted to the demands by the United States to keep these boundaries intact.

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Why the Taliban Had to Change

Glenn Diesen
With its plan to unite Eurasia from sea to sea, Russia is betting the days of total US economic supremacy are now coming to an end

The centre of the world is moving. While once it sat somewhere within the Atlantic, balanced between Europe and the US, it is now moving east. With Asia on the rise, Russia is now planning its role at the heart of two continents.

Moran M. Mandelbaum
The Gellnerian modality revisited: towards a ‘genealogy’ of cultural homogenization and nation-state congruency

Siniša Malešević
‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans

Anis Bajrektarević
Of Health and Nuclear Holocaust (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)

Daniele Conversi
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Nationalism

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Germany and its neo-imperial quest

Glenn Diesen
With its plan to unite Eurasia from sea to sea, Russia is betting the days of total US economic supremacy are now coming to an end

Eric Zuesse
Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WW III

Glenn Diesen
Borsch & Bulgakov ours, Brezhnev & Bolsheviks theirs

Zlatko Hadžidedić
A Bengalese Response to Modi’s Type of Nationalism

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Why the Taliban Had to Change

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Supremacy or Property, at the Roots of Identity?

Gabriel Schober
The Pandemic’s Impact on the 2021 German Elections

Ian O’Flynn and Didier Caluwaerts
Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies

Jonathan M. Acuff
Modernity and Nationalism

Ashok Swain
Hindu Nationalists Back Macron, Not on Free Speech but on Islamophobia

Michaelangelo Anastasiou
The spatiotemporality of nationalist populism and the production of political subjectivities

Moran M. Mandelbaum
The Gellnerian modality revisited: towards a ‘genealogy’ of cultural homogenization and nation-state congruency

Siniša Malešević
‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans

Anis Bajrektarević
Of Health and Nuclear Holocaust (Intentionality, Directionality and Outcome)

Daniele Conversi
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Nationalism

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Germany and its neo-imperial quest

Zlatko Hadžidedić
Why the Taliban Had to Change

Glenn Diesen
With its plan to unite Eurasia from sea to sea, Russia is betting the days of total US economic supremacy are now coming to an end