Civic and Ethnic Nationalism

This research examines the development of civic and ethnic nationalism. As well, the relationship between the development of nationalism and social identity theory is reviewed.

The idea that every nation should have its own state·accompanied by the corollary that one ethnic or cultural group should not collectively role over another·has been the most powerful political force of the past two hundred years. "While particular nationalisms vary, this basic nationalist conception of an ideal world order has been remarkably unchanged for well over a century."

The concept of nationalism has survived setbacks since the French Revolution. One argument against the spread of nationalism is that such a phenomenon destabilizes the international political order. The harmful effects of alteration of existing borders·even peaceful alteration·would, it is contended, outweigh the benefits. "The belief of the Bush administration that the United States was a status quo power explains its efforts to keep both th

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. For whatever reasons you chose to cite, the percentage of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo has been increasing rapidly at the expense of the Serbs. Serbia openly expresses a desire to readjust the ethnic balance in Kosovo. Since American President Clinton warned that any attempt to cleanse Albanians from the region would push the United States into direct military intervention in Serbia, the Serbian authorities have resorted to "marginally more discreet measures than are practised elsewhere." A visiting British politician, heading an international inter-parliamentary human rights mission to Kosovo in 1993 said that that denying people work or terrifying the population was 'part of a policy to make life so unpleasant for Albanians as to force them to move out.' In short, he said, as evidenced by the fact that more than 300,000 Albanians have fled Kosovo under Milosevic's ascendancy, 'this amounts to nothing less than not-so-subtle ethnic cleansing.'" Serb nationalism is based in a sense of victimization and historical injustice. The Serbian people's very survival, according to the Serbian argument, is "threatened by Muslim, Catholic and imperialist conspiracies; while Croats, Muslims, and Slovenians scramble to unite their p
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Approximate Word count = 3890
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)

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