Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total War, Soviet Empire, Eric Hobsbawm
7 Nov 2017
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Ethnic group: community claiming common language, religion, ancestry. Nation: categorization, comradeship, commitment to political autonomy, usually statehood. Nationalism: sense of integrity and value of national community, commitment to national political aspirations. Nation-state: state territory matches boundaries of national community, rare (france, italy, japan), most states are multinational (canada, nigeria) National self determination: the principle supporting the creation of nation-states. >jg herder: natural and durable, language key force in nationalism. >benedict anderson: an imagined community , nations are limited and sovereign. Defends own nation against internal and external threat. Centrally involved in the collapse of major empires (ottoman, russian, austria-hungary) Released national energies -> formed into new states. New soviet empire -> grows increasingly nationalistic at one time. Woodrow wilson: national self-determination as path to peace and freedom. Declaration of rights of man and citizen: principle of sovereignty resides essentially in.
