Deciphering the modern Janus: societal multiplicity and nation-formation

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

Schemas of the Nation in Modern Democracies

This study develops a novel analytical approach for studying popular conceptions of the nationstate that accounts for both withinand between-country heterogeneity and avoids a priori assumptions about the national boundedness of culture. I identify widely shared attitudinal patterns among a pooled sample of over 27,000 respondents from thirty countries and only subsequently examine those respon...

Nation Formation and Genetic Diversity∗

This paper presents a model of nation formation in which culturally heterogeneous agents vote on the optimal level of public spending. Larger nations beneÞt from increasing returns in the provision of public goods, but bear the costs of greater cultural heterogeneity. This tradeoff induces agents’ preferences over different geographical conÞgurations, thus determining the likelihood of secessio...

Unearthing the nation: modern geology and nationalism in Republican China.

Multiculturalism and cultural diversity in modern nation state

In the established political system of liberal nation-states built up on a principle of coherence between culture and nation as territorially defined groups, the occurrence of cultural differences has brought to the dissolution of this formula crucial for a unity of a nation-state. Nationalism holds that cultural differences are results of a hierarchy between “us” and “them” and consequently th...