Bringing the study of warfare into theories of nationalism

Hutchinson, John

doi:10.1111/nana.12364

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“…War has been also important because, as argued by John Hutchinson (2018), 'the constitutive myths of many nations are derived from war experience'. Wars can spread and solidify old myths and create new ones (common purpose, new beginnings, victories and even defeats).…”

Section: Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ukraine at war: Baseline identity and social construction

Wilson

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Ukrainians' resilience in the face of Russia's 2022 invasion can be explained by cumulative identity change through successive revolutions: the Orange Revolution in 2004, the Maidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity in 2013–2014 and the current as yet unnamed war. The two phases of the war, from 2014 and 2022, have accelerated both the civic and the social construction of Ukrainian identity. Post‐post‐Soviet Ukraine is now a consolidated civic and political nation. But there is also an increased consensus on traditional nationalist mythology, defined by opposition to Russia's aggressive reimperialisation and autocratic political culture and by Ukraine's hyper‐Europeanisation.

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Section: Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ukraine at war: Baseline identity and social construction

Wilson

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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“…These analytical obstacles also characterize the literature on nationalism and warfare more generally. As pointed out by Hutchinson (2018) and Murphy (2002), much of this literature reduces nationalism to a mobilizing “technology” within given state borders while paying less attention to its border‐transforming effects.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although some authors have argued that the random nature of African borders has been exaggerated (Brownlie and Burns 1979), their locations were clearly much less endogenous to nationalism and conflict than in most other parts of the world. This is especially true when compared to Europe, where borders and ethnic settlement patterns were at least in part shaped by warfare (see, e.g., Hutchinson 2018; Tilly 1990). We rely on the Murdock data to compute our fractionalization measures up to 1989, as displayed in Figure 9.…”

Section: Robustness Testsmentioning

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Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict

Cederman

Rüegger

Schvitz

2021

American J Political Sci

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Are past border changes responsible for today's civil wars? Departing from conventional, state‐centric research designs, this article examines this question by focusing on “aggregate” ethnic groups, which are defined independently of state borders. Introducing a new index of “territorial fractionalization” that measures how fragmented such groups are across states, we postulate that higher fragmentation is linked to a greater risk of civil conflict. Furthermore, we expect that groups that experienced increases in fragmentation are particularly violence prone, as illustrated by postimperial revisionism and other cases of irredentism and secession. To test our arguments, we combine geocoded data on ethnic settlement areas with our own newly collected data on international borders since 1886, complemented by mediation analysis based on ethnonationalist claims. Covering ethnic groups around the world since 1946 through 2017, our findings are robust to the inclusion of control variables, fixed effects, and the use of alternative historical ethnicity data sets.

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“…This risked what has been described as the misgiving regarding the moral failure of the people when faced with defeat. This could lead to future domestic instability (Horne 2008, Hutchinson 2017. The easiest way of course is to accuse the government of failing the people, as some political parties and many volunteers have done.…”

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A nation-in-the-making, in arms: control of force, strategy and the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

Käihkö

2018

Defence Studies

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At the core of waging war and strategy is the creation, control and use of force. This article investigates the volunteer battalions that mobilized in Ukraine during the spring of 2014. It contextualizes the volunteer phenomenon and focuses on the state strategies to establish control over these militias. As ambiguous entities arising from a situation characterized by rapid social change-revolution and war-the volunteer battalions threatened existing hierarchies and questioned state authority. The situation was exacerbated by the war, which deviated from the expectations of Ukrainian combatants and Western military observers alike. The state nevertheless enjoyed a modicum of success in reining in the militias through four strategies of undermining, co-option, incorporation and coercion. While predominantly integrated into a more rigid category of paramilitary forces, the volunteers continue to play a role in both the Ukrainian society and security sector to the unforeseeable future. Introduction: the nation that saved the state The months following November 2013 resulted in a series of monumental events for the Ukrainian state and nation. The first was the Maidan revolution-later officially named the Revolution of Dignity-which after more than a hundred dead and many more injured led to the ousting of the President Viktor Yanukovych on 22nd of February. In the ensuing breakdown of state authority and legitimacy, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula and stoked separatism in Eastern Ukraine. The state paralysis and failure to prevent the annexation encouraged volunteer mobilization to protect Ukrainian sovereignty. These volunteers ensured that the state would not sit idle this time around. In a sense, Ukraine witnessed a nation-in-the-making during a state-in-breaking in the form of the self-mobilization of the so-called volunteer battalions. This article investigates these volunteers, and the ways the state subsequently sought to control them. The narrative that the nation in the form of volunteer battalions saved the state remains common in Ukraine. As Azov News-the media arm of this volunteer formation turned into

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Bringing the study of warfare into theories of nationalism

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Ukraine at war: Baseline identity and social construction

Ukraine at war: Baseline identity and social construction

Redemption through Rebellion: Border Change, Lost Unity, and Nationalist Conflict

A nation-in-the-making, in arms: control of force, strategy and the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

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