Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe

by Rogers Brubaker

• ISBN13: 9780521576499
• ISBN10: 0521576490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Rethinking nationhood and nationalism	13	(66)
1 Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event	13	(10)
2 Nationhood and the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states: an institutionalist account	23	(32)
3 National minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands in the New Europe	55	(24)
Part II The old "New Europe" and the new	79	(100)
4 Nationalizing states in the old "New Europe" -- and the new	79	(28)
5 Homeland nationalism in Weimar Germany and "Weimar Russia"	107	(41)
6 Aftermaths of empire and the unmixing of peoples	148	(31)
Bibliography	179	(14)
Index	193