After independence : making and protecting the nation in postcolonial & postcommunist states
Examines the changes to nationalism after independence in seven new states. This volume aims to challenge scholars and specialists to rethink conventional views of ethnic and civic nationalism, and the division between primordial and constructivist understandings of national identity. It is for social science scholars, as well as policy-makers.
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2006
Case studies
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780472098989, 9780472068982, 0472098985, 0472068989
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Nationalism and independence / Lowell W. Barrington
Nationalism in postcolonial states / Joshua B. Forrest
From Malay nationalism to a Malaysian nation? / Diane K. Mauzy
Rwanda: tragic land of dual nationalisms / John F. Clark
From irredentism to secession: the decline of pan-Somali nationalism / Peter J. Schraeder
The post-Soviet nations after independence / Ian Bremmer
Nationalism in post-Soviet Lithuania: new approaches for the nation of "innocent sufferers" / Terry D. Clark
Kravchuk to the Orange Revolution: the victory of civic nationalism in post-Soviet Ukraine / Taras Kuzio
Post-Soviet Armenia: nationalism and its (dis)contents / Razmik Panossian
Georgia: nationalism from under the rubble / Stephen Jones
Nationalism, nation making, and the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Eurasia / Ronald Grigor Suny
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