PSC 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Nationstates
28 Nov 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 power and ideologies. 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 their peripheries produced a world order of nation-states and turned nationalism into the dominant political idea. The sacrosanct principle of state sovereignty was weakened with the end of the cold war, new nation-state formation, and new economic and cultural forms of globalization.
