Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Expansionist Nationalism, Nationstates, Total War

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Ethnic group: community claiming common language, religion, ancestry. Nation: ethnicity plus desire for political autonomy, usually statehood. Nation state: territory of state matches boundaries of national community: this is rare (france, italy, japan, most states are multi-national (canada, nigeria) National self-determination: the principle supporting the creation of nation states. Eithe(cid:396) (cid:858) (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al(cid:859) a(cid:374)d sta(cid:271)le (cid:894)jg he(cid:396)de(cid:396)(cid:895), o(cid:396) adapted to (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374)ity (cid:894)a(cid:374)tho(cid:374)y (cid:373)ith(cid:895) More common in absence of established states, as justification for liberation struggle. Political principles u a (cid:862)life, li(cid:271)e(cid:396)ty, a(cid:374)d the pu(cid:396)suit of happi(cid:374)ess(cid:863); f(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:862)li(cid:271)e(cid:396)ty, f(cid:396)ate(cid:396)(cid:374)ity, Effects of french revolution: fused nation and state, promoted equality, liberal constitutionalism, democracy, revolutionary war spread liberal ideas, spurred nationalist reaction to revolutionary and napoleonic control (spain, italy, prussia) Germany and italy unified by 1871: napoleonic occupation of iberian peninsula spurred national liberation in latin america, Collapse of major empires, releasing national energies. Spread of principle of national self-determination woodrow wilson: a world of nation states would be free and peaceful.