• List of Figures List of Maps
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815
• 3. Restoration, Romanticism, and Emancipatory Impulses, 1815-1850
• 4. Industrialization, Ideological Radicalization, and Imperialism, 1850-1890
• 5. European Nationalism between Mass Politics, War, and Peace, 1890-1920
• 6. Nationalism and Belonging in an Age of Extremes, 1920-1945
• 7. The Fate of Nationalism in a Divided Europe, 1945-1989
• 8. Nationalism and Belonging in Europe since the Cold War
• 9. Postscript
• Select Bibliography.
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Nationalism has been, without question, one of the most potent political and cultural forces within Europe since the late-18th century. Placing particular emphasis on transnational and comparative links, Nationalism in Modern Europe provides a clear and accessible history of the development of nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. The book situates nationalist ideas and movements in Europe firmly within the context of other signifiers of identity and belonging - such as religion, race, and gender - while also providing comprehensive geographic coverage across Europe. It incorporates recent historiographical trends and debates as part of the discussion and includes 13 images, 9 maps and a range of primary source excerpts for classroom use. It is an essential volume for all students of the history of nationalism in modern Europe and a useful text for anyone seeking to know more about modern European history in general.
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'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely...throws light on our contemporary predicament, when the neglected and dispossessed of the world have suddenly risen up to transform the world we thought we knew' John Banville How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.
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• Prologue: Forgotten conjunctures
• Clearing a space : history's winners and their illusions
• Loving oneself through others : progress and its contradictions
• Losing my religion : Islam, secularism and revolution
• Regaining my religion : I. Nationalism unbound; I I. Messianic visions
• Finding true freedom and equality : the heritage of nihilism
• Epilogue: Finding reality.

"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern, those who were unable to enjoy its promises--of freedom, stability and prosperity--were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world--or were left, or pushed, behind--reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose--angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wide embrace of mass politics and technology and the pursuit of wealth and individualism have cast many more billions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity--with the same terrible results. Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface: How European is Eastern Europe? / William H. Swatos, Jr.
• Introduction: The interplay of religious and sexual nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe / Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort
• "Faggots won't walk through the city" : religious nationalism and LGBT pride parades in Serbia / Marek Mikuš
• European culture wars : sexual nationalism between Euro-Christian and Euro-secular civil religion in Poland and Romania / Mihai Tarta
• For the sake of the nations : media, homosexuality and religio-sexual nationalisms in the post-Yugoslav space / Srdjan Sremac, Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović, Martina Topić, and Miloš Jovanović
• Antagonism in the making : religion and homosexuality in post-communist Poland / Dorota Hall
• Echoes from the margin : responses to the Pope's statements on homosexuality in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Sweden / Mariecke van den Berg and Zlatiborka Popov Momčinović
• Religious nationalism blocking the legal recognition of same-sex unions in the Baltic States / Alar Kilp
• "Gays as a weapon of the Antichrist" : religious nationalism, homosexuality and the Antichrist on the Russian internet / Magda Dolinska Rydzek and Mariecke van den Berg
• Religion, homosexuality and nationalism in the western Balkans : the role of religious institutions in defining the nation / Tamara Pavasović Trošt and Koen Slootmaekers.

Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays, and Governments. presents case studies from some ten countries that serve to explore the ways in which religion, nationalism, and (homo)sexuality intersect in public discourse. It shows how religious leaders, political and social movements, LGBT-organizations, governments, and media negotiate the powers of religion and state in taking position regarding sexual diversity. These negotiations are as much about sexual morality as they are about national identity, anti-EU sentiments, and the efforts of religious institutions to regain power in post-communist societies.
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• Preface: How European is Eastern Europe? / William H. Swatos, Jr
• Introduction: The interplay of religious and sexual nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe / Srdjan Sremac and R. Ruard Ganzevoort
• "Faggots won't walk through the city" : religious nationalism and LGBT pride parades in Serbia / Marek Mikus
• European culture wars : sexual nationalism between Euro-Christian and Euro-secular civil religion in Poland and Romania / Mihai Tarta
• For the sake of the nations : media, homosexuality and religio-sexual nationalisms in the post-Yugoslav space / Srdjan Sremac, Zlatiborka Popov-Momcinovic, Milos Jovanovic, and Martina Topic
• Antagonism in the making : religion and homosexuality in post-communist Poland / Dorota Hall
• Echoes from the margin : responses to the Pope's statements on homosexuality in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Sweden / Mariecke van den Berg and Zlatiborka Popov Momcinovic
• Secular and religious discourses blocking the extension of religious and legal rights of same-sex couples in the Baltic States / Alar Kilp
• "Gays as a weapon of Antichrist" : religious nationalism, homosexuality and Antichrist in RuNet / Magda Dolinska Rydzek and Mariecke van den Berg
• Religion, homosexuality and nationalism in the western Balkans : the role of religious institutions in defining the nation / Tamara Pavasovic Trost and Koen Slootmaekers.

Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays, and Governments. presents case studies from some ten countries that serve to explore the ways in which religion, nationalism, and (homo)sexuality intersect in public discourse. It shows how religious leaders, political and social movements, LGBT-organizations, governments, and media negotiate the powers of religion and state in taking position regarding sexual diversity. These negotiations are as much about sexual morality as they are about national identity, anti-EU sentiments, and the efforts of religious institutions to regain power in post-communist societies.
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This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical "democracies." The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically democratic vision of society. "From the Trade Paperback edition.".
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• Introduction Japan Again ix
• Chapter 1 The Power to Innovate 1 Japan Again 1 The Keys to Revitalizing Japan 4 Keidanren s Raison D etre 7 The Nature of Innovation 11 Schumpeter s Contribution 15 Building Infrastructure 19 Business Innovation 23 Summary 27
• Chapter 2 The Power to Operate 29 Workforce Fluidity 29 Privatization 33 Lifetime Employment 37 Escaping Lifetime Employment 40 Immigration Problems 43 Why English Needs to Be a Common Language in Japan 45 Growing the Population 50 Summary 53
• Chapter 3 The Power in Questioning Abenomics 55 History of Abenomics 55 Independence in Finance 59 The Optimal Inflation Rate 62 Halting the Rise of Interest Rates 65 What to Do About Our 1-Quadrillion-Yen Debt 67 The Pros and Cons of Abenomics 70 Summary 75
• Chapter 4 The Power of the Low-Cost State 77 The High Cost of Governance 77 How to Reform the High-Cost Structure 83 Addressing the Japanese Disease 87 The United States and Individualism 92 The Impotent Bureaucracy 95 Internationalizing the Bureaucracy 99 Creating Think Tanks 103 Political Appointees 106 What It Will Take to Improve the Bureaucracy 109 Summary 111
• Chapter 5 The Power to Succeed Overseas 113 The Decline in the Number of Students Studying Abroad 113 Escaping from the Galapagos Effect 118 The Future of Journalism 121 Media in the Internet Era 125 The Importance of Liberal Arts 131 Ryoichi Mikitani s Experiences Abroad 134 Summary 137
• Chapter 6 The Power to Educate 139 Uniform Japanese Education 139 The Education of the Mikitani Family 141 What the Education System Needs 146 Higher Education 151 What People Study in University 154 The Founding of Rakuten 157 The Evaluation System for Teachers 160 The Need for Strategy in the Japanese Education System 162 Summary 168
• Chapter 7 The Power to Build Brand Japan 169 Brand Power 169 The Demonstration Effect 174 Brand Value at the National Level 178 Foreign Nationals Working in Japan 183 Making Japan Attractive to Foreign Nationals 186 Japan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership 189 Summary 195 Conclusion What Is the Power to Compete? 197 Japan Uniquely Incorporates and Interprets Cultures 197 Competitiveness as a Platform 200 The Global Logistics Revolution 202 Summary 205 Epilogue 207 Acknowledgments 211 Index 213.
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"If you're as interested in Japan as I am, I think you'll find that The Power to Compete is a smart and thought-provoking look at the future of a fascinating country." - Bill Gates, "5 Books to Read This Summer" Father and son entrepreneur and economist search for Japan's economic cure The Power to Compete tackles the issues central to the prosperity of Japan and the world in search of a cure for the "Japan Disease." As founder and CEO of Rakuten, one of the world's largest Internet companies, author Hiroshi Mikitani brings an entrepreneur's perspective to bear on the country's economic stagnation. Through a freewheeling and candid conversation with his economist father, Ryoichi Mikitani, the two examine the issues facing Japan, and explore possible roadmaps to revitalization. How can Japan overhaul its economy, education system, immigration, public infrastructure, and hold its own with China? Their ideas include applying business techniques like Key Performance Indicators to fix the economy, using information technology to cut government bureaucracy, and increasing the number of foreign firms with a head office in Japan. Readers gain rare insight into Japan's future, from both academic and practical perspectives on the inside. Mikitani argues that Japan's tendency to shun international frameworks and hide from global realities is the root of the problem, while Mikitani Sr.'s background as an international economist puts the issue in perspective for a well-rounded look at today's Japan. * Examine the causes of Japan's endless economic stagnation * Discover the current efforts underway to enhance Japan's competitiveness * Learn how free market "Abenomics" affected Japan's economy long-term * See Japan's issues from the perspective of an entrepreneur and an economist Japan's malaise is seated in a number of economic, business, political, and cultural issues, and this book doesn't shy away from hot topics. More than a discussion of economics, this book is a conversation between father and son as they work through opposing perspectives to help their country find The Power to Compete.
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• Contents: Discrimination - Stranger - The League of Polish Families - Polish National Culture - Three Traditions of Polish Patriotism - National Democracy - Critical Discourse Analysis - Critique of fantasies - Populism - EU Accession - Euroscepticism - Racist and Xenophobic Discourse - Homophobic Discourse - Gendered Discourse.
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This book examines the intertwined relationship between contemporary Polish politics and national culture by focusing on the phenomenon of discrimination. The object of the analysis is the language of the League of Polish Families, a populist party that recreated the climate of pre-war National Democracy in Poland from 2001 to 2007 by negatively labeling the nation's Others. Through the political party's discourse of discrimination, the book grasps a peculiar moment of Poland that faced uncertainty of identity upon its accession to the European Union. By adopting a method of critical discourse analysis, the author attests to the party's political use of different layers of national traditions in denigrating Jews, sexual minorities and feminists while sanctifying the Polish nation.
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• Introduction: After Yugoslavia
• identities and politics in the successor states-- R.Hudson & G.Bowman Constitutional ethno- nationalism after fifteen years-- V.Dimitrijevic Kosovo and two dimensions of the contemporary Serb-Albanian conflict: N.Vladisavljevic Why the peaceful resistance movement in Kosovo failed: S.Maliqi The paradox of the solution: The impact of the Kosovo Question on Macedonia: M.Muhic Pride and perplexities: Identity politics In Macedonia and its theatrical refractions: I.Dodovski A re-examination of the position of the student movement in Serbia: V.Markovic Translated by Adem Repesa and Robert Hudson Bosnia and Herzegovina: Citizenship versus nationality: N.Andjelic Singing the politics of the Croatian transition: I.Prica The gender dimension of conflict and reconciliation: ten years after: Women reconstructing memory: V.Kesic Unable to heal: Debate on the national self in post-socialist Slovenia: I.Sumi No Monuments, No History, No Past: Monuments and Memory: B.Jezernik Belgrade-Ljubljana-Brussels: S.Gaber Hypercapitalism as the replacement of old nationalist fears: R.Salecl Revisiting involvement and detachment: Yugoslavia as an object of scholarship: J.B.Allcock.
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An investigation of recent developments and trends within the Yugoslav successor states since the signing of the Dayton Agreements in Autumn 1995. This book offers a distinctive and desirable perspective on the seven successor states, their cultures, politics and identities by providing an internal perspective on the region and its developments.
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• List of Figures Preface Part I: Promises and Problems of Post-communist Nation Branding
• 1: Nation Branding in Post-communist Europe: Identities, Markets, and Democracy, Nadia Kaneva
• 2: Systemic Propaganda and State Branding in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Gerald Sussman
• 3: Brand Interrupted: The Impact of Alternative Narrators on Nation Branding in the Former Second World, Robert A. Saunders Part II: Agents, Institutions, Practices
• 4: Redesigning a Nation: Welcome to E-stonia, 2001-2018, Sue Curry Jansen
• 5: Who Can Play this Game? The Rise of Nation Branding in Bulgaria, 2001-2005, Nadia Kaneva
• 6: Towards Corpo-nationalism: Poland as a Brand, Pawel Surowiec Part III. Representations, Mediations, Narrations
• 7: Branding Slovenia: "You Can't Spell Slovenia Without Love...", Zala Volcic
• 8: Vampire Branding: Romania's Dark Destinations, Alice Bardan and Aniko Imre
• 9: One Nation, One Brand? Nation Branding and Identity Reconstruction in Post-communist Hungary, Laszlo Kulcsar & Young-ok Yum
• 10: The Musical (Re)branding of Serbia: Srbija Sounds Global, Guca, and EXIT, Branislava (Brana) Mijatovic Contributors Index.
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Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition to documenting various rebranding initiatives, these studies raise important questions about their political and cultural implications.
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• Introduction : la danse du paon hongrois
• Le bulldozer Fidesz
• La droite hongroise remporte la majorité absolue
• Une victoire historique de la droite
• La droite hongroise veut limiter les prérogatives de la Cour constitutionnelle
• La droite populiste hongroise réduit les compétences de la Cour constitutionnelle
• Viktor Orban, "prêt pour le combat" en faveur de l'Europe... et de la Hongrie
• Sous le signe de Dieu et de la Sainte Couronne
• La Commission européenne est "préoccupée" par plusieurs projets de Viktor Orban
• La dérive hongroise inquiète Washington
• Forte mobilisation de l'opposition
• Pour le Conseil de l'Europe, l'indépendance du système judiciaire hongrois est menacée
• Un rapport difficile à l'Histoire
• L'inquiétant héritage de la "souffrance hongroise"
• Sandor Kepiro, accusé de crimes nazis, et acquitté
• Une Constitution qui ouvre la voie au révisionnisme
• La valse des statues
• Vienne-Budapest, aller et retour
• En Hongrie, la gauche proteste contre la réhabilitation de Mildos Horthy
• Un criminel nazi présumé a été arrêté en Hongrie
• Une conception ethnique de la nation
• Aux législatives hongroises, droite et extrême droite font assaut de nationalisme
• Flambée de nationalisme entre Hongrie et Slovaquie
• Les passeports hongrois promis aux minorités magyares dérangent l'Europe
• Et la Hongrie inventa la préférence nationale canine
• L'ex-empire austro-hongrois cherche encore ses mots
• Pressions sur les médias
• Le gouvernement de M. Orban encadre strictement la liberté de la presse
• Comment faire taire une radio d'opposition
• Le premier ministre Viktor Orban multiplie les lois contre les médias, les religions et le suffrage universel
• La dernière radio indépendante privée de licence
• En Hongrie, les médias de gauche ou libéraux sont entravés par le pouvoir
• Le champ de bataille de l'économie
• Psychodrame autour de l'eau à Pécs
• L'inquiétude des dirigeants hongrois secoue les marchés
• En Hongrie, la droite au pouvoir mène sa "révolution nationale" à marche forcée
• Le gouvernement hongrois veut étatiser les 11 milliards d'euros détenus par les fonds de pension privés
• Un pari risqué sur la croissance
• Un plan pour protéger les ménages contre le surendettement
• La Hongrie décide de reprendre en main Mol, son fleuron énergétique
• L'Europe centrale étranglée par l'envolée du franc suisse
• Le plan d'aide aux Hongrois endettés provoque la colère de Vienne et de Bruxelles
• En Hongrie, les poisons cachés d'Almasfüzit0
• La Hongrie se résout à appeler le FMI à l'aide
• Après des mois de critiques envers Bruxelles, la Hongrie ne fera pas cavalier seul
• Orban reste sourd aux injonctions de la Commission
• Bruxelles gèle des fonds pour pousser la Hongrie à assainir ses comptes
• Le président du Parlement, Laszlo Köver, juge "scandaleuses" les conditions de prêt du FMI
• Une nouvelle élite économique
• L'extrême droite reprend l'offensive
• L'extrême droite hongroise fait une entrée provocatrice au nouveau Parlement
• L'extrême droite hongroise repart à l'assaut de la "criminalité tzigane"
• Dans le nord-est, les provocations contre les Tziganes ont débouché sur des violences

• Gyöngyöspata, vitrine de l'extrême droite
• La Hongrie rongée par la haine
• Roms et pauvres
• Dans le nord déshérité de la Hongrie, en pays rom
• La malédiction des Roms hongrois
• Guerre aux pauvres
• Les Roms hésitent à se déclarer en tant que tels lors du recensement hongrois
• Au Canada, les demandes d'asile de Hongrois ont presque doublé en 2011
• Vieux démons de l'antisémitisme
• En Hongrie, un antisémitisme ordinaire reste au centre du débat public
• Le pouvoir hongrois veut faire taire les voix critiques
• Embardées antisémites d'un proche du premier ministre
• L'extrême droite magyare rouvre les plaies de l'"affaire Dreyfus" hongroise
• Des écrivains antisémites sont remis à l'honneur
• L'affaire Schmitt
• Le président hongrois, sportif et plagiaire de haut niveau
• Convaincu de plagiat, le président hongrois démissionne
• Viktor Orban propulse un fidèle vers la présidence de la République hongroise
• Remous dans la culture
• Pécs, "capitale de la culture" en sursis
• En Hongrie, la culture sous la pression du nationalisme
• Le Nouveau Théâtre de Budapest offert à l'extrême droite
• Démographie et religion
• Angoissée par son déclin démographique, la Hongrie renvoie les mères au foyer
• La Hongrie "a besoin de chaque vie"
• Les Hongrois appelés à se compter et à faire des bébés
• Des croyants venus de toute l'Europe centrale ont réaffirmé les "fondements chrétiens" de l'Union
• Loi restrictive sur les religions.

"Où va la Hongrie ? Celle que construit à marche forcée, depuis avril 2010, le nationaliste conservateur Viktor Orban, appuyé sur une majorité des deux tiers, peut-elle devenir un modèle pour une Union européenne en crise, ou au contraire l'un des germes les plus virulents de sa dissolution ? Longtemps considérée comme la plus riante des "démocraties d'Europe de l'Est", ce pays avait donné l'exemple d'une transition pacifique vers le postcommunisme. Très vite, trop vite, il a ouvert son économie aux forces du marché, en espérant qu'elles lui apporteraient progrès et prospérité. Son intégration dans l'Union européenne, en 2004, était censée lui permettre de surmonter l'immense frustration engendrée par le traité de Trianon, en 1920, qui avait ôté à une nation millénaire plus des deux tiers de son territoire, et trois millions et demi d'habitants de culture magyare. Mais aucune de ces questions inscrites au fer rouge dans la psyché hongroise n'a été résolue. Elles ressurgissent à la faveur de la "révolution" menée par M. Orban, jadis enfant prodige de la démocratisation, décidé à ne pas laisser revenir au pouvoir ses adversaires de gauche, quitte à verrouiller l'alternance et à utiliser des moyens peu orthodoxes pour remplir les caisses de l'État. La droite au pouvoir reprend ainsi des pans entiers du programme du parti d'extrême droite Jobbik, qu'elle prétend endiguer. La préférence nationale économique, le contrôle accru des médias, le culte d'un passé mythifié, la chasse aux pauvres et la tolérance envers l'antisémitisme sont devenus des traits marquants de la politique hongroise. À Bruxelles comme à Washington, on s'inquiète de cette dérive, d'autant plus dangereuse qu'elle intervient sur fond de crise de l'euro et de la construction communautaire. Car la Hongrie reste, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, un aiguillon au flanc de l'Europe, un sulfureux laboratoire du nationalisme."--P. [4] of cover.

• London
• East Germans
• Kiev
• Chernobyl
• Ukrainian independence
• Chechnya
• Vadym
• Moldova
• Shopping and a civil war
• Chechnya in London
• Bosnia
• The Orange Revolution.

Based on diaries, reporting notebooks, letters and memory, the author, a student turned journalist, tells of her adventures in Europe within a ten-year period (1988 to 1998) which included major historical and political change in countries such as Budapest, Bishkek, Chornobylʹ and Chechnya. She finishes her stories with an eyewitness account of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004.

• 1. Introduction: postcommunism, nationalism, and refugees--
• 2. A theory of refugee politics in 'contested' and 'uncontested' postcommunist states--
• 3. Refugee policy in the Russian Federation--
• 4. Refugee policy in Ukraine--
• 5. Refugee policy in the Czech Republic--
• 6. Refugee policy in Poland--
• 7. Conclusion.
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Why do similar postcommunist states respond differently to refugees? Why do some states privilege certain refugee groups, while other states do not? This book presents a theory to account for this puzzle, and it centers on the role of the politics of nation-building and of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A key finding of the book is that when the boundaries of a nation are contested (and thus there is no consensus on which group should receive preferential treatment in state policies), a political space for a receptive and nondiscriminatory refugee policy opens up. The book speaks to the broader questions of how nationalism matters after communism and under what conditions and through what mechanisms international actors can influence domestic polices. The analysis is based on extensive primary research the author conducted in four languages in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
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• Introduction: Why and How Kin-States Engage Populations Abroad Kin-State Nationalism and Governing Legitimacy Kin-State Nationalism, Diaspora Politics, and Political Competition Kin-State Engagement and European Integration The Politics of Diaspora Policy Reform: From Dual Citizenship to Economic Development Conclusion: Kin-State Nationalism and Diaspora Politics in Eastern Europe.
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The book addresses why and how states in Eastern Europe take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states. Based on a qualitative study of Hungary and its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighboring states, the book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drive engagement with co-ethnics beyond the border. The resulting policies are then shaped and constrained by the process of European Union integration and by contestation over the boundaries of identity and citizenship.
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• Introduction - Ljiljana Saric, Stefan Manz, Andreas Musolff, and Ingrid Hudabiunigg
• Part I
• Chapter 1 Expellees, Counterfactualism, and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-National Debates in German-Polish Relations - Stefan Manz
• Chapter 2 The Role of Metaphor in Shaping Cultural Stereotypes: A Case Study of French Public Discourse on European Union Enlargement - Steffen Buch and Uta Helfrich
• Chapter 3 Metaphors in German and Lithuanian Discourse Concerning the Expansion of the European Union - Sandra Petraskaite-Pabst Part II
• Chapter 4 Domestic and Foreign Media Images of the Balkans - Ljiljana Saric
• Chapter 5 Naming Strategies and Neighboring Nations in the Croatian Media - Dubravka Kuna and Branko Kuna
• Chapter 6 Mujahiddin in Our Midst: Bosnian Croats after the Wars of Succession - Daphne Winland
• Chapter 7 Construction of Serbian and Montenegrin Identities through Layout and Photographs of Leading Politicians in Official Newspapers - Tatjana Radanovic Felberg
• Chapter 8 Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia's EU Integration - Andreja Vezovnik
• Chapter 9 The Linguistic Image of the Balkans in the Polish Press in Discourse on European Union Expansion - Pawel Bak
• Chapter 10 The Eternal Outsider? Scenarios of Turkey's Ambitions to Join the EU in the German Press - Andreas Musolff
• Part III
• Chapter 11 Contested Identities: Miroslav Krleza's Two Europes vs. the Notion of Europe's Edge - Ingrid Hudabiunigg
• Chapter 12 Masculinity and the New Sensibility: Reading a Contemporary Montenegrin Novel - Biljana Jovanovic Lauvstad
• Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland - Knut Andreas Grimstad Conclusion - Ljiljana Saric.
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Since 1989, Europe's eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The linguistic study of discourse elements in connection with an exploration of the significance of metaphors in anchoring individual and collective identity is innovative and allows for a unique analysis of public discourse in Europe.
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• Introduction - Ljiljana Saric, Stefan Manz, Andreas Musolff, and Ingrid Hudabiunigg
• Part I
• Chapter 1 Expellees, Counterfactualism, and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-National Debates in German-Polish Relations - Stefan Manz
• Chapter 2 The Role of Metaphor in Shaping Cultural Stereotypes: A Case Study of French Public Discourse on European Union Enlargement - Steffen Buch and Uta Helfrich
• Chapter 3 Metaphors in German and Lithuanian Discourse Concerning the Expansion of the European Union - Sandra Petraskaite-Pabst Part II
• Chapter 4 Domestic and Foreign Media Images of the Balkans - Ljiljana Saric
• Chapter 5 Naming Strategies and Neighboring Nations in the Croatian Media - Dubravka Kuna and Branko Kuna
• Chapter 6 Mujahiddin in Our Midst: Bosnian Croats after the Wars of Succession - Daphne Winland
• Chapter 7 Construction of Serbian and Montenegrin Identities through Layout and Photographs of Leading Politicians in Official Newspapers - Tatjana Radanovic Felberg
• Chapter 8 Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia's EU Integration - Andreja Vezovnik
• Chapter 9 The Linguistic Image of the Balkans in the Polish Press in Discourse on European Union Expansion - Pawel Bak
• Chapter 10 The Eternal Outsider? Scenarios of Turkey's Ambitions to Join the EU in the German Press - Andreas Musolff
• Part III
• Chapter 11 Contested Identities: Miroslav Krleza's Two Europes vs. the Notion of Europe's Edge - Ingrid Hudabiunigg
• Chapter 12 Masculinity and the New Sensibility: Reading a Contemporary Montenegrin Novel - Biljana Jovanovic Lauvstad
• Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland - Knut Andreas Grimstad Conclusion - Ljiljana Saric.
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Since 1989, Europe's eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The linguistic study of discourse elements in connection with an exploration of the significance of metaphors in anchoring individual and collective identity is innovative and allows for a unique analysis of public discourse in Europe.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Idea of Europe
• 2. The Redefinition of Europe
• 3. The State: Decline and Reinvention
• 4. Politics: The Parliamentary Model
• 5. Economics: Sharing the Wealth
• 6. Society: Quality Over Quantity
• 7. Values: Multicultural and Secular
• 8. Europe in the World: Towards Perpetual Peace
• 9. Conclusions.
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In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the European Union, and regardless of residual identities with states and nations, Europeans have much in common. Opening chapters deal with the historical development of European ideas, and are followed by chapters addressing European attitudes toward the state (including a rejection of state-based nationalism, new ideas about patriotism and citizenship, and the importance of cosmopolitanism), the characteristics of politics and government in Europe (with an emphasis on communitarianism and the effects of the parliamentary system of government), European economic models (including the importance of welfarism and sustainable development), European social models, European attitudes towards values such as multiculturalism and secularism, and Europeanist views in regard to international relations (emphasizing civilian power and multiculturalism).
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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-- ABBREVIATIONS-- PART I: THEORY AND COMPARISON--
• 5. POST-POSTCOMMUNISM, OR IS THERE STILL AN "EASTERN EUROPE?"-- TABLES-- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? In this wide-ranging and readable set of essays, Charles King examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of extreme politicsthat pitted nations, ethnic groups, and violent entrepreneurs against one another, from the wars in the Balkans and Caucasus to the apparent upsurge in nationalist mobilization throughout the region. But the last twenty years have also illustrated the incredible diversity of political life after the end of one-party rule. Understanding these changes requires an appreciation for the multiple pathways from communism, as well as the particular ways in which scholars from the West have engaged with the region. As King shows, recognizing the intellectual predispositions and trajectories in the West is critical to understanding how scholars have interpreted-and at times misinterpreted-the complex politics of the ex-communist East. Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the nature of migration and demographic change in Eurasia. Published exactly twenty years since the collapse of the Communist system, Extreme Politics charts the end of Eastern Europeas a place and chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of Russia, the Balkans, and the wider postcommunist world.
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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-- ABBREVIATIONS-- PART I: THEORY AND COMPARISON--
• 5. POST-POSTCOMMUNISM, OR IS THERE STILL AN "EASTERN EUROPE?"-- TABLES-- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? In this wide-ranging and readable set of essays, Charles King examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of extreme politics that pitted nations, ethnic groups, and violent entrepreneurs against one another, from the wars in the Balkans and Caucasus to the apparent upsurge in nationalist mobilization throughout the region. But the last twenty years have also illustrated the incredible diversity of political life after the end of one-party rule. Understanding these changes requires an appreciation for the multiple pathways from communism, as well as the particular ways in which scholars from the West have engaged with the region. As King shows, recognizing the intellectual predispositions and trajectories in the West is critical to understanding how scholars have interpreted-and at times misinterpreted-the complex politics of the ex-communist East. Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the nature of migration and demographic change in Eurasia. Published exactly twenty years since the collapse of the Communist system, Extreme Politics charts the end of Eastern Europe as a place and chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of Russia, the Balkans, and the wider postcommunist world.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction Conservative Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy 1 Chapter One: Republicans, Conservatives, and U.S. Foreign Policy 11 Chapter Two: Robert Taft The Conservative as Anti- Interventionist 39 Chapter Three: Dwight Eisenhower The Conservative as Balancer 85 Chapter Four: Barry Goldwater The Conservative as Hawk 117 Chapter Five: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Realists as Conservatives 142 Chapter Six: Ronald Reagan The Idealist as Hawk 187 Chapter Seven: George H. W. Bush The Conservative as Realist 232 Chapter Eight: George W. Bush The Nationalist as Interventionist 265 Conclusion: Republicans and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama 290 Notes 323 Index 359.
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"Hard Line" traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it. Colin Dueck closely examines the political careers and foreign-policy legacies of Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He shows how Republicans shifted away from isolationism in the years leading up to World War II and oscillated between realism and idealism during and after the cold war. Yet despite these changes, Dueck argues, conservative foreign policy has been characterized by a hawkish and intense American nationalism, and presidential leadership has been the driving force behind it. What does the future hold for Republican foreign policy? "Hard Line" demonstrates that the answer depends on who becomes the next Republican president. Dueck challenges the popular notion that Republican foreign policy today is beholden to economic interests or neoconservative intellectuals. He shows how Republican presidents have been granted remarkably wide leeway to define their party's foreign policy in the past, and how the future of conservative foreign policy will depend on whether the next Republican president exercises the prudence, pragmatism, and care needed to implement hawkish foreign policies skillfully and successfully. "Hard Line" reveals how most Republican presidents since World War II have done just that, and how their accomplishments can help guide future conservative presidents.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction Conservative Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy 1 Chapter One: Republicans, Conservatives, and U.S. Foreign Policy 11 Chapter Two: Robert Taft The Conservative as Anti- Interventionist 39 Chapter Three: Dwight Eisenhower The Conservative as Balancer 85 Chapter Four: Barry Goldwater The Conservative as Hawk 117 Chapter Five: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Realists as Conservatives 142 Chapter Six: Ronald Reagan The Idealist as Hawk 187 Chapter Seven: George H. W. Bush The Conservative as Realist 232 Chapter Eight: George W. Bush The Nationalist as Interventionist 265 Conclusion: Republicans and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama 290 Notes 323 Index 359.
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Hard Line traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it. Colin Dueck closely examines the political careers and foreign-policy legacies of Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He shows how Republicans shifted away from isolationism in the years leading up to World War II and oscillated between realism and idealism during and after the cold war. Yet despite these changes, Dueck argues, conservative foreign policy has been characterized by a hawkish and intense American nationalism, and presidential leadership has been the driving force behind it. What does the future hold for Republican foreign policy? Hard Line demonstrates that the answer depends on who becomes the next Republican president. Dueck challenges the popular notion that Republican foreign policy today is beholden to economic interests or neoconservative intellectuals. He shows how Republican presidents have been granted remarkably wide leeway to define their party's foreign policy in the past, and how the future of conservative foreign policy will depend on whether the next Republican president exercises the prudence, pragmatism, and care needed to implement hawkish foreign policies skillfully and successfully. Hard Line reveals how most Republican presidents since World War II have done just that, and how their accomplishments can help guide future conservative presidents.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Explaining far right trajectories--
• 3. Party and media politics in Austria: the rise of the FPO--
• 4. Competing over German identity: conservatives and the non-visible far right--
• 5. Greek nationalists: from mainstream to the margins?--
• 6. The growth, persistence and fall of the French National Front--
• 7. Conclusion.
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This book examines the fascinating interplay of party and media behavior to explain one of the most important phenomena in Western Europe: the rise of far-right parties. To account for the divergent electoral fortunes of these parties, the book examines how political parties and the mass media have dealt with growing public concerns over national identity. Mainstream politicians chose to 'play the nationalist card', creating opportunities for the entry of far-right parties into the political system. In some cases, the media gave outsized exposure to such parties, allowing them to capitalize on these opportunities; in other cases, they ignored them, blocking their entry into the political system. Using elite interviews, content analysis, and primary documents to trace identity politics since the 1980s, this book presents an original interpretation of identity politics and media behavior in Austria, Germany, Greece, and France since the 1980s.
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• 1 Table of Contents
• Chapter 2
• 1. Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: Is There Still Anything to Explore?
• Part 3 I. Questioning Conceptions of Nationalism
• Chapter 4
• 2. Civic Nationalism and the Nation-State: Towards a Dynamic Model of Convergence
• Chapter 5
• 4. The Unbearable Lightness of British "Liberal Nationalism"
• Part 6 II. Three Perspectives on Nationalism in Europe
• Chapter 7
• 4. European Nationalism and European Identity
• Chapter 8
• 5. Globalization and Nationalism in Europe: Demolishing Walls and Building Boundaries
• Chapter 9
• 6. Theorizing Regional Minority Nationalism
• Part 10 III. Old Nationalism in Western Europe?
• Chapter 11
• 7. "Back to the Future" with the Vlaams Belang? Flemish Nationalism as a Modernizing Project in a Post-Modern European Union
• Chapter 12
• 8. National Pride and Prejudice: The Case of Germany
• Chapter 13
• 9. Nationalism in Italy
• Part 14 IV. New Nationalism in Eastern Europe?
• Chapter 15
• 10. Marginalized Radicalism: The Recent Trends in Latvian Nationalism
• Chapter 16
• 11. The Grass Was Always Greener in the Past: Re-Nationalizing Bulgaria's Return to Europe
• Chapter 17
• 12. The Importance of Being European: Narratives of East and West in Serbian and Croatian Nationalism
• Chapter 18
• 13. Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: Multiplicity and West-East Similarity 19 Index 20 About the Contributors.
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Nationalism remains one of the key political, societal, and sociopsychological phenomena in contemporary Europe. Its significance for the justification of state policies and the stability of political systems, particularly in the context of advanced democracies, and its significance for people's basic needs for a political and cultural identity and a sense of national pride continue to challenge scholars. The international scholars assembled in this edited collection suggest that the use of three perspectives-supranationalism, boundary-making nationalism, and regional nationalism-may be promising as an explanatory framework for the analysis of nationalism in Europe. The book's contributors distance themselves from older dichotomies such as civic and ethnic nationalism and questions the one-sided normativity of nationalism, in particular in the concept of liberal nationalism. It argues that a promising approach to contemporary nationalism should reflect the multiplicity of nationalism. The volume is a collection of studies by a multinational group of authors with backgrounds in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the United States.
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• Preface * Nationalism - Conceptual Framework * Continuity and Discontinuity in the Romanian Nationalist Discourse * Tradition, Context and Transition to Post-Communism * The Greater Romania Party: Background, Competition and Significance * The Party and its Leader * The Decline of the Greater Romania Party * Romania in the EU: The Future of Nationalism * Conclusions.
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The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe produced a fundamental change in the political map of Europe. In Romania, nationalism re-emerged forcefully and continued to rally political support against the context of a long and difficult transition to democracy. Extreme right-wing party The Greater Romania Party gained particular strength as a major political power, and its persuasive appeal rested on a reiteration of nationalism and identity - and themes such as origins, historical continuity, leadership, morality and religion - that had been embedded in Romanian ideological discourse by earlier nationalist formations. Radu Cinpoes here examines the reasons for the strength and resilience of nationalism in Romania, from the formation of the state to its accession in the EU.
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• Faces, faiths, tongues, and blood
• Across the river and into an Iraqi war
• Jerusalem's soured milk and honey
• Lebanon's cedars of mayhem
• Gender war unveiled in Afghanistan
• The bumpy tribal road from Moscow to Tel Aviv
• Riding the rails and crossing borders
• Crosses to bear in Belfast
• Somalia, land of the walking dead
• Desert anarchy, Algerian style
• Bosnian test : Who's your God?
• Soul-searching in Central Asia
• In Syria, my name is not my name.

This memoir by an American journalist explores how entrenched notions of self, family, and tribalism dictate human behavior in our modern world. Salome's work as a foreign correspondent, reporting from such places as Belfast, Kabul, Bosnia and Somalia, provided him with a unique perspective on the role nationalism and tribalism play in conflicts around the globe. While sweeping in its scope, the work bears witness to one man's examination of his familial roots and ethnicity, and the ways in which tribalism is found lurking under his own roof. It includes 26 personal photos, as well as maps to familiarize readers with some of the world's most misunderstood and volatile regions.
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• Prequel, 1955-1974 : The apprenticeship of Willis Carto
• William Pierce, national socialism, and the National Youth Alliance
• Part one: Emergence, growth, and consolidation, 1974-1986 : The Turner Diaries and resurgence
• David Duke and a new Klan emerge
• The election of 1980: The Klan and Ronald Reagan
• Denying the Holocaust
• Survivalism meets a subcultural "Christian identity"
• Nation and race: Aryan nations, Nehemiah township, and Gordon Kahl
• Christian patriots after Gordon Kahl
• Birth of the first underground
• Enclave nationalism and the order
• Origin of the Populist Party and the break with Reaganism
• Europeans and Southerners at the Institute for Historical Review
• Part two: Mainstreamers and ballots take the lead, 1987-1989 : White riot in Forsyth County on King Day
• David Duke, the Democratic Party candidate
• Crackdown and indictment at Fort Smith
• Before the trial begins
• Seditious conspiracy goes to trial
• Pete Peters's family-style Bible camp for identity believers
• Elections 1988: David Duke and Pat Robertson out on the Hustings
• Populist Party meets in Chicago after David Duke wins a legislator's seat
• Skinhead International in Tennessee
• Part three: The end of anticommunism, 1990-1991 : German unification and the reemergence of nationalism
• The first Persian Gulf War and the realignment of the far right
• The collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of white supremacy
• Transatlantic traffic
• Part four: The movement matures, 1992-1993 : The Duke campaign(s) and the Louisiana electorate
• Pat Buchanan runs through the Republican presidential primaries
• The Populist Party goes with Bo Gritz
• The FBI aims for Randy Weaver on Ruby Ridge
• After the shoot-out, the militia
• Clinton's first year and the culture war
• Inferno at Waco and Randy Weaver wins at trial
• A suicide in North Carolina and the birth of resistance records
• Willis Carto loses control of the Institute for Historical Review
• Part five: Against the new world order, 1994-1996 : The common law courts, partners to the militia
• Birth of American Renaissance
• Holocaust denial: to the Moscow station
• Elections 1994: An anti-immigrant voting bloc emerges
• The bell curve: Legitimizing scientific racism
• The Oklahoma City bomb and its immediate aftermath
• The second underground collapses
• (Re)birth of the Council of Conservative Citizens
• The Washington Times fires Sam Francis
• Elections 1996: Pat Buchanan roils the Republicans
• Part six: Mainstreamers and vanguardists at century's end, 1997-2001 : Carto dispossessed
• Resistance Records: Buying and selling in the cyberworld
• After the Oklahoma City bomber(s) are tried, the violence continues
• The United States Congress and the Council of Conservative Citizens
• National Alliance remakes Resistance Records
• Liberty Lobby in bankruptcy court
• The millennium changes
• Elections 2000: The neo-confederate resurgence
• Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party
• The Liberty Lobby fortress crumbles
• Part seven: Prolegomena to the future, 2001-2004 : After September 11, 2001
• The anti-immigrant movement blossoms
• Willis Carto and William Pierce leave the main stage
• The penultimate moment
• The future.

"More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades."-inside jacket.

The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and highly respected British commentator, argues that America is not as exceptional as it would like to think; its blindness to its own history has bred a complacent nationalism and a disastrous foreign policy that has isolated and alienated it from the global community.Tracing the development of America's high self regard from the early days of the republic to the present era, Hodgson demonstrates how its exceptionalism has been systematically exaggerated and, in recent decades, corrupted. While there have been distinct and original elements in America's history and political philosophy, notes Hodgson, these have always been more heavily influenced by European thought and experience than Americans have been willing to acknowledge.A stimulating and timely assessment of how America's belief in its exceptionalism has led it astray, this book is mandatory reading for its citizens, admirers, and detractors.
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• A city set upon a hill
• Myth and reality in the birth of a nation
• From civil war to cold war
• From liberal consensus to conservative ascendancy
• The other exceptionalism
• The corruption of the best.

The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and highly respected British commentator, argues that America is not as exceptional as it would like to think; its blindness to its own history has bred a complacent nationalism and a disastrous foreign policy that has isolated and alienated it from the global community.Tracing the development of America's high self regard from the early days of the republic to the present era, Hodgson demonstrates how its exceptionalism has been systematically exaggerated and, in recent decades, corrupted. While there have been distinct and original elements in America's history and political philosophy, notes Hodgson, these have always been more heavily influenced by European thought and experience than Americans have been willing to acknowledge.A stimulating and timely assessment of how America's belief in its exceptionalism has led it astray, this book is mandatory reading for its citizens, admirers, and detractors.
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• Ethnic identity and nation building : on the Byzantine and Ottoman historical legacies / Hercules Millas
• Between the Ottoman legacy and the temptation of the West : Bulgarians coming to terms with the Greeks / Raymond Detrez
• Legacy or legacies : competitions and conflicts / Alexander Kiossev
• The rejected legacy / Nikolay Aretov
• Romania's return to Europe : between politics and culture / Dennis Deletant
• Revisiting historical and cultural myths and cliches : the Romanian case of nation state building / Ana Maria Dobre
• "The turks were not as bad as written in history text books" : acknowledging an Ottoman legacy in present-day Romania / Silvana Rachieru
• Cultural identity and cultural rights in Romania : the case of Transylvania / Andrea Carteny
• Reformulating identity in transition : the turks of Bulgaria after 1989 / Magdalena Elchinova
• Neo-Ottomanism, cultural diversity and contemporary Turkish politics / Yilmaz Colak
• Conflicts and contradictions in Turkey's adaptation to multi-level governance in the EU : the role of Ottoman legacy in Turkey's present-day regional governance / Ebru Ertugal
• New patterns of Balkan cooperation for Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Turkey : the impact of the organisation of the Black Sea economic cooperation and NATO / Martina Petkova.

The enlargement of the EU with the Balkan countries has aroused the skepticism of many. Although EU admission is primarily a matter of economic and political concerns, questions of cultural import are readily brought into play: Does the country in question conform sufficiently to « our standards of a « European identity? The problematic status of the Balkans in this respect largely consists in their common Byzantine and Ottoman legacies. By focusing on Bulgaria and its neighbours Romania, Greece and Turkey, the authors of this collection attempt to elucidate how mutually incompatible the « cultural identity of the Ottoman « successor states and that of Europe are. Ample attention is devoted not only to the perception of the Balkans in the West, but also to the self-image of people in the Balkans and perceptions they hold of the West. If anything like a Balkan identity can be said to exist, what is its relation to the various ethnic, national, religious and linguistic communities? Notably, what was and is the role played by religion in nation state formation? The relationship with Europe forms the thread that runs through the discussion of these issues.
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• Acknowledgments List of Tables and FigueresIntroduction1. Irredentism and Its Absence: International Presures Versus Domestic Dynamics
• 2. Dueling Irredentisms: Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia
• 3. Reunification at Any Price: Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
• 4. Pushing the Envelope: Hungary's Assertive Attention to Kin
• 5. Romania's Restraint? Avoiding the Worst Through Domestic Scapegoating
• 6. Breaking up Is Hard to Do: Russia and Its Kin in the Near Abroad
• 7. War and Peace in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and Beyond
• 8. Findings and ImplicationsReferences Index.
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In Addition to economic and political instabilities, the collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that might have been lost under empire, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that result in costly and self-destructive wars. Efforts to reunite lost kin are known as irredentism--territorial claims based on shared ethnicties made by one state to a minority population residing within another state. By focusing on the phenomenon of irredentism, this book investigates why the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe prompted more violence in some instances and less violence in others. Despite the tremendous political and economic difficulties facing all former communist states during their transition to market democracy, only Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia upset existing boundaries. Hungary, Romania, and Russia practiced much more restraint. The authors consider various explanations for the causes of irredentism or for more restrained policy and the legacies of failed irredentist efforts.
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The collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that may have been lost in the past, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that can result in costly and devastating wars. The final years of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, the end of European colonization in Africa and Asia, and the demise of the Soviet Union were all accompanied by war and atrocity.These efforts to reunite lost kin are known as irredentism & mdash; territorial claims based on shared ethnic ties made by one state to a minority population residing within another state. For Kin or Country explores this phenomenon, investigating why the collapse of communism prompted more violence in some instances and less violence in others. Despite the tremendous political and economic difficulties facing all former communist states during their transition to a market democracy, only Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia tried to upset existing boundaries. Hungary, Romania, and Russia practiced much more restraint. The authors examine various explanations for the causes of irredentism and for the pursuit of less antagonistic policies, including the efforts by Western Europe to tame Eastern Europe. Ultimately, the authors find that internal forces drive irredentist policy even at the risk of a country's self-destruction and that xenophobia may have actually worked to stabilize many postcommunist states in Eastern Europe.
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• Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Introduction to the 2015 Edition Introduction
• 1. Irredentism and Its Absence: International Presures Versus Domestic Dynamics
• 2. Dueling Irredentisms: Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia
• 3. Reunification at Any Price: Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
• 4. Pushing the Envelope: Hungary's Assertive Attention to Kin
• 5. Romania's Restraint? Avoiding the Worst Through Domestic Scapegoating
• 6. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Russia and Its Kin in the Near Abroad
• 7. War and Peace in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and Beyond
• 8. Findings and Implications References Index.
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The collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that may have been lost in the past, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that can result in costly and devastating wars. The final years of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, the end of European colonization in Africa and Asia, and the demise of the Soviet Union were all accompanied by war and atrocity. These efforts to reunite lost kin are known as irredentism-territorial claims based on shared ethnic ties made by one state to a minority population residing within another state. For Kin or Country explores this phenomenon, investigating why the collapse of communism prompted more violence in some instances and less violence in others. Despite the tremendous political and economic difficulties facing all former communist states during their transition to a market democracy, only Armenia, Croatia, and Serbia tried to upset existing boundaries. Hungary, Romania, and Russia practiced much more restraint. The authors examine various explanations for the causes of irredentism and for the pursuit of less antagonistic policies, including the efforts by Western Europe to tame Eastern Europe. Ultimately, the authors find that internal forces drive irredentist policy even at the risk of a country's self-destruction and that xenophobia may have actually worked to stabilize many postcommunist states in Eastern Europe. Events in Russia and Eastern Europe in 2014 have again brought irredentism into the headlines. In a new Introduction, the authors address some of the events and dynamics that have developed since the original version of the book was published. By focusing on how nationalist identity interact with the interests of politicians, For Kin or Country explains why some states engage in aggressive irredentism and when others forgo those opportunities that is as relevant to Russia and Ukraine in 2014 as it was for Serbia, Croatia, and Armenia in the 1990s.
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• Introduction: Separatism and Statehood in an Integrating Europe New Contexts and New Meanings for Strategies of Self-Government The Development of Political Nationalism in Scotland and Flanders Nationalists and Europe: Initial Encounters Europeanizing the Nationalist Agenda: The Scottish National Party Europeanizing the Nationalist Agenda: The Vlaams Belang The European Parliament: The Nationalist Presence in a European Institution Lobbying for the 'National Interest' Conclusion: New Nationalisms in a New Europe?
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This book challenges the popular assumption that European integration and a 'Europe without borders' will reduce or eliminate the incentives for separatist nationalism in the European Union. The author argues that the EU sustains the importance of statehood and therefore separatism, and creates new forms of political capital that nationalists employ in their struggles for self-government.
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