Walker Connor

Ethnonationalism

The Quest for Understanding

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications. In these essays, which have appeared over the course of the last three decades, he argues that Western scholars and policymakers have almost invariably underrated the influence of ethnonationalism and misinterpreted its passionate and nonrational qualities. Several of the essays have become classics: together they represent a rigorous and stimulating attempt to establish a secure methodological foundation for the study of a complicated phenomenon increasingly, if belatedly, recognized as the major cause of global political instability. The book opens by reviewing a wide range of scholarship on ethnonationalism. Connor examines nineteenth-and early twentieth-century debate among British scholars on the viability and desirability of the multinational state, the American "nation-building" school of thought that dominated the literature on political development in the post-World War II era, and the recent explosion of literature on ethnonationalism. In the second part of the book, he shows how progress in the study of ethnonationalism has been hampered by terminological confusion, an inclination to perceive homogeneity even where heterogeneity thrives, an unwarranted tendency to seek explanation for ethnic conflict in economic differentials, and lack of historical perspective. The book closes with a consideration of the inherent limitations of rational inquiry into the realm of group-identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780691025636
• ISBN-10: 0691025630
• Artikelnr.: 22371502

Autorenporträt

Walker Connor is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Among his works is The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1
The British Intellectual Tradition ("Self-Determination: The New Phase")
3
2
American Scholarship in the Post-World War II Era ("Nation-Building or
Nation-Destroying?")
28
3
More Recent Developments ("Ethnonationalism")
67
4
Terminological Chaos ("A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic
Group, Is a...")
89
5
Illusions of Homogeneity ("Myths of Hemispheric, Continental, Regional,
and State Unity")
118
6
The Seductive Lure of Economic Explanations ("Eco- or
Ethno-Nationalism?")
144
7
Ahistoricalness: The Case of Western Europe ("Ethnonationalism in the
First World: The Present in Historical Perspective")
165
8
Man Is a [R(n)ational] Animal ("Beyond Reason: The Nature of the
Ethnonational Bond")
195
9
When Is a Nation? ("From Tribe to Nation?")
210
Index
227

Rezensionen

This collection . . . by one of the leading scholars of ethnonationalism is both highly instructive about the essential nature of the problem and unusually prescient in its anticipation of the ethnic and nationalist resurgence in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.