POL380H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnic Nationalism
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Difficult to achieve: under what conditions do nations matter, 2 conditions (in how they influence world politics) Nations matter when theyre dispersed across multiple states: creates transnational links that wouldn"t be there otherwise, eg. China in 2011 had more ppl living outside borders than pop of. When they push for state borders to be changed. Lots of groups are not: when nations aren"t happy wih status quo, lots can happen, eg. Crimea: debate has to do with if russia speaking pop in. Coercion: by using force against state or international actor, violence can spill over borders and elicits response from un or humanitarian actors, eg. Balkans: 1990s: ethnonationalist conflict: nationalist groups not happy with existing borders: spain/india example in readings. 2005: world bank estimated that remittances (money migrant sending home to home country) to developing countries totaled at least b (conservative guess) but could be as much as double that: eg.
