The paper re-reads the complex and changing relationships between the university and the nation-state, and between national and supranational (EU-level) educational policies in Europe. It is focusing on long-term consequences of globalisation-related pressures on European nation-states with respect to national educational policies. It assesses the indirect impact of globalisation on European un...

The nation-state of Sierra Leone crumbled during the 1990s. A decade-long civil war destroyed the state and brutalized the national imaginings. Despite the lack of institutional structure, some members of its society chose to keep the nation alive through discourse on a listserv, an email forum called Leonenet. Using a multi-methodological approach that incorporated content analysis, interviews...

The article scrutinizes Turkish-Azerbaijani key areas of cooperation – political, economic, military-technical, cultural and humanitarian. For instance, in addition to intensive interaction at the level high-ranking political elites, Azerbaijani-Turkish unity context is largely built on basis classifying foreign policy partners into common friends enemies (the “friend-foe” principle). Thus, bot...

Few studies have explored the relationships between nation-building, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Focusing on small island developing states, this paper examines nation-building in Timor-Leste, a small island developing state that recently achieved independence. Nation-building in Timor-Leste is explored in the context of disaster risk reduction, which necessarily incl...

Following dissolution of empires, nation-states appeared on the stage history in 19th century when they were established as a result nationalism that came into prominence based unity common language and history. it would not be wrong to say nationalist movements started transition period nation-state structure took place simultaneously. Nationalism has an important role process losing legitimac...