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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.mandelbaum

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.

Nationalism Studies analysis Celtic

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.

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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.

Rwandan-refugees-cross-the-border-into-Tanzania-carrying-their-belongings.-Jeremiah-Kamau-Reuters

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.

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  • 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.

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    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.

  • russia-syria

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

    Ever since Joe Biden became America’s President in January, America’s hostile and threatening actions and rhetoric against (as Biden refers to him) the ‘killer’ Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, have made clear to Putin that the U.S. Government’s determination to impose regime-change upon Russia will continue undiminished. This hostility from Biden has dashed Putin’s hope that the string of sanctions which the U.S. Government has constantly been adding to ever since President Obama started the anti-Russian sanctions in 2012, would end, or at least not continue to be added to, under Biden.

  • Borsch and Brezhnev

    Glenn Diesen
    Borsch & Bulgakov ours, Brezhnev & Bolsheviks theirs

    The battle for the future of Ukraine is largely a struggle to control the historical narrative, culture and national identity. Historical narratives and identities are largely based on the story of the original people and the shared suffering and victories. The Eastern Slavic identity views Ukraine as a bi-ethnic, bi-cultural and bi-lingual state, and the greatest domestic threat is ethno-cultural nationalists. The ethno-cultural Ukrainian identity presents Ukraine as a single and distinct ethnicity, culture and language, and the greatest domestic threat derives from the Eastern Slavic Ukrainians who preserve the russification of Ukraine as an imperial legacy. How can a common national narrative and identity be reached?

  • Modi

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

    India is probably the most complex country in the world, consisting of many sub-national (religious, ethnic, linguistic, caste) identities. This delicate balance has been disturbed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its programme of re-definition of Indian national identity as an exclusively Hindu, ethno-religious identity. The BJP’s ethno-religious nationalism–similar to the US Republicans’ White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nationalism that excludes all non-Whites, non-anglo-Saxons, and non-Protestant as bearers of the American national sovereignty –aims to exclude all other religious groups in India as bearers of the Indian national sovereignty and isolate them on the margins of Indian society.

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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.

confederate-flag-usa

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.

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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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bosnian parliament

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.

macron modi

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.

Center for Nationalism Studies Populism

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.

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moran.mandelbaum

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.

Nationalism Studies analysis Celtic

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 pic

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.

Rwandan-refugees-cross-the-border-into-Tanzania-carrying-their-belongings.-Jeremiah-Kamau-Reuters

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.

Center for Nationalism Studies

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.

taliban

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.

most

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.

Center for Nationalism Studies
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