Abstract Is Russia a neoimperial or postimperial state? In this paper, I compare two interpretations proposed by political commentators Marcel Van Herpen and Dmitri Trenin. holds that the Russian empire is literally being rebuilt, whereas Trenin believes just ceasing to be an empire. argue that, contrary popular belief, current war against Ukraine cannot interpreted as attempt restore This beca...

This introduction to the themed section 'Beyond Binaries of Nationalism' critically reviews use binaries in nationalism studies. It identifies a lack precision ideal types as key failing, and points new conceptions types. The contributions question reification binaries, most especially western/eastern civic/ethnic their attendant biases, instead emphasize certain ideological fluidity character ...

The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and I...

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated with an inherited ethnic trait (‘‘nationality’’) and one with an endogenous achievement trait (‘‘inco...

In her article "Anti-Nationalism in Scott's Old Mortality," Montserrat Martínez García examines national identity through war in Walter Scott's Old Mortality in order to illustrate that war was one of the main catalysts of nationhood and show, simultaneously, the disparity between the institutional and the popular attitude toward war. Martínez García pays attention to the way Scott portrayed wa...

mohammed moftahh rajab al-fituri is a major african poet with such an unprecedented sphere of knowledge and artifice who has praised revolutions and immortalized the free spirit of heroism in africa and the arab world. alfiturihas composed odes on many causes covering lebanon, palestine, and iraq wherein he calls upon nations to struggle for their freedom and to fight submission and slavery. al...

The emergence of nationalism as an ideology affecting all world societies followed a parallel course to the nation-states in West. It has been influential shaping political, cultural, and social structures today's societies. Different theories different perspectives have developed explain development its impact on modern nationalist theory, one theoretical approaches explanation nationalism, co...

Pericles Lewis, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, is the author of Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on two projects, The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and a book on religious experience in the modernist novel, from which the essay in this issue is drawn. Churchgoing in the Modern N...

The normative binary of ‘good-progressive’ and ‘bad-retrograde’ nationalism, traceable to the civic ethnic dichotomy, is alive well in studies nationalism populism today. This articl...