States, Nations and Nationalism
Political Science
About This Course
This course is aimed to promote the knowledge about the states, nations and nationalism. There is a focus on the Nation-state and the formation of the modern state. So this course studies the evolution of the states and analyses the surgement of nationalisms. Also there are given some examples of the formation of nations and nationalisms.
Course Content
1. State and Nation: modern states, ancient nations?
a) Nation-state: State-building and nation-building
b) The formation of the modern state: a monopoly on violence or legitimate coercion?
c) How did the state build the nation?
d) Religion, coercion and social discipline.
2. Protest and revolution
a) Modernity , protest and revolution
b) The American Revolution and the first wave of emancipation of nations
c) The French Revolution and the idea of nation
d) The liberal Revolutions of the century XIX
3. Towards a typology of the formation of nations and nationalisms
a) The old European nations
b) The new nations of the Americas
c) The unification of Germany and the origins of German nationalism
d) Italian unification and the Risorgimento
f) Crisis of empires and the affirmation of nationalisms: Eastern Europe and the Balkans
g) Postcolonial nationalisms
4. Theories of nations and nationalisms
5. States, nations and nationalisms in the era of globalization
Bibliography
Schulze H. ,States, Nations and Nationalism : From the Middle Ages to the Present,John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1998
Delanty, G. & Kumar, K. (2006). The Sage handbook of nations and nationalism. London: Sage.
Hutchinson J. ,Nationalism and war, Oxford University Press, 2017
Hutchinson, J. ,Understanding nationalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001
Breuilly J. , Nationalism and the State, Manchester University Press, 1993