Different population dynamics of the three main nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the era of Yugoslav federation raised uncertainty and tensions in this socialist republic. The differences in the demographic development of Muslims, Serbs and Croats began to clearly manifest especially during the years 1971–1991. The fatality of these changes, which had caused major alterations in the pro...

The political trajectories of the post-Soviet states are varied, with democracy being the outcome in only a minority of these countries. The different outcomes are striking, given the similarity of starting points. The key to understanding a democratic outcome lies in the different relationships between old regime elites and civil society-based opposition forces, and the ethnic balance in the c...

this paper examines the evolution of nationalism and national identity in europe and how it was transferred to and propagated in central asia by the soviets. it further examines the challenge facing central asian peoples in the post-soviet era; namely in defining a new national identity for themselves as new independent nation-states in the age of globalization. the paper attempts to demonstrat...

Nationalism as an idea, movement and ideology denotes tendency of members ethnic group towards the establishment ethnically pure territory. Achieving this political goal, with superiority in relation to others a guiding often leads jeopardizing sovereignty territorial integrity oppression exploitation other people. has been significant feature Russian society for centuries. Traditionally, focus...

Nationalist ideology, which emerged in the 18th century and profoundly influenced 19th, occupies a significant position human affairs concept of nation-state, despite its contradictions multidimensional structure. As nationalism gained traction ethnosymbolist mentality through values such as race, religion, language, ethnicity, it acquired different meanings around civic aftermath modernization...

D its fundamental role in legitimizing the modern state system, nationalism has rarely been linked to the outbreak of political violence in the recent literature on ethnic conflict and civil war. to a large extent, this is because the state is absent from many conventional theories of ethnic conflict. indeed, some studies analyze conflict between ethnic groups under conditions of state failure,...

Nationalism demands that rulers and ruled hail from the same ethnic background. The gradual adoption of this principle of legitimate statehood has transformed the shape of the political world over the past 2oo years and has provided the ideological motivation for an increasing number of wars fought in the modern era. Before the age of nationalism set in at the end of the eighteenth century, ind...

Genetic Similarity Theory extends Anthony D. Smith’s theory of ethno-symbolism by anchoring ethnic nepotism in the evolutionary psychology of altruism. Altruism toward kin and similar others evolved in order to help replicate shared genes. Since ethnic groups are repositories of shared genes, xenophobia is the ‘dark side’ of human altruism. A review of the literature demonstrates the pull of ge...

Despite the relevance of nationalism for politics and intergroup relations, sociologists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the phenomenon in the United States, and historians and political psychologists who do study the United States have limited their focus to specific forms of nationalist sentiment: ethnocultural or civic nationalism, patriotism, or national pride. This article in...

The purpose of this research is to present a new model for understanding ethnonationalism: the dynamic ethnonationalism model, which depicts ethnic nationalism as an entity comprised inherited elements well selective and changing ones. According concept, nationalism, usually thought “closed” given kinship, also has flexible voluntary nature, similar yet not identical civic nationalism. Ethnic i...