PSC 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Nationstates
30 Oct 2017
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There is no simple sequence leading either from nationalism to nation-state formation to changes in the global political order, or the other way around. There is no single, dominant form of nationalism, but rather it can be ethnic or civic, elite or popular, and strengthen or subvert existing states. The political ideology of the leading states matters most because others respond to their political power and ideologies. In the first phase, britain and france set the tone for nationalist developments elsewhere, but by 1900 german and japanese models became more important, and after 1918, and especially after 1845, us and soviet models mattered most. State-subverting colonial nationalisms cannot on their own defeat imperial powers but are helped by the weakening of those powers in global conflict with each other. A combination of imitation and challenge, conflict between the major powers and nationalist assertion in the peripheries produced a world order of nation-states and turned nationalism into the dominant political idea.
