The literature on African nationalism is replete with conceptual categories that describe the various stages and types of African nationalism and the resistance to colonial rule. Among the foremost scholars on African nationalism are J. Ade Ajayi and Terrence Ranger. The works of these scholars appear to have created a conceptual disagreement on the roots of African nationalism. The article ana...

The dichotomy of civic vs. ethnic nationalism has long been applied spatially to explain differences between ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ manifestations nationalism. Though frequently criticised on empirical, methodological, normative grounds, this dualism continues find widespread use in studies. Through a genealogical study the dichotomy’s emergence evolution from Hans Kohn John Plamenatz Ernest G...

© L p i Does immigrant-origin diversity undermine states’ willingness to engage in broad social redistribution, from enacting “living” minimum wage laws and progressive taxation, to providing public benefits in order to mitigate economic inequality? In asking this question, Will Kymlicka (2015), one of the staunchest defenders of multiculturalism, takes seriously the question of whether recogni...

This paper contributes to existing debates on the significance of modem diasporas in the context of global politics. In particular, it examines how nationalism has adapted to the newly emerging transnational environment. The new type of nationalism, long-distance nationalism, utilises modern forms of communication and travel to sustain its potency and relevance. Long-distance nationalism is not...

This article examines the role of nationalism in shaping Chinese foreign policy in the history of contemporary China over the last 100 years. Nationalism is used here as an analytical term, rather than in the usual popular pejorative sense. By tracing the various expressions of contemporary Chinese nationalism, this article argues that nationalism is one of the key enduring driving forces which...

Does popular nationalism breed international conflict? International relations scholars have either dismissed nationalism as epiphenomenal or have assumed that it increases the likelihood of interstate violence. Contrary to these conventional views, this paper claims that popular nationalism can have a stabilizing effect, which facilitates the status quo, and that its conflictinducing effect ap...

In the United States during late 1820s, labor movements formed that faced public accusations of being un-American and potentially puppets European influence. These often came from politicians or organizations sympathetic to ethnic nationalism. Partially in response these charges, began espouse versions Creedal Nationalism. As a country without natural nation, has maintained for over two centuri...