Eastern European militant nationalism: Some causes and measures to counteract it.

Pick, Thomas M.

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“…There is a body of research showing that nationalism is linked with less tolerance for otherness, both external and internal (Hinkle & Brown, 1990;Pick, 1997;Blank & Schmidt, 2003); support for tough or even aggressive international policies and feelings of national superiority (Kosterman & Feshbach, 1989;Schatz & Staub, 1997;Sidanius, Feshbach, Levine, & Pratto, 1997;Federico, Golec, & Dial, 2005), as well as racist-and fascist-based prejudices (Heaven, Rajab, & Ray, 1985;Staub, 1997;Dekker, Malova, & Hoogendoorn, 2003;Leyens, Cortes, Demoulin, Dovidio, Fiske, Gaunt, 2003). Therefore, one can suspect that nationalism would be a reason for subscribing to confrontational metaphor rather than to one of prejudice reduction, according to Kruglanski`s and others' ( 2007) classification of the way people perceive terrorism and counterterrorism.…”

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Motherland under attack! Nationalism, terrorist threat, and support for the restriction of civil liberties

Sekerdej¹,

Kossowska²

2011

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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Motherland under attack! Nationalism, terrorist threat, and support for the restriction of civil liberties The paper addresses the role which national attitudes play in terrorist threat perception and in the choice of specific counterterrorism strategies. Study 1 shows that participants higher on nationalism tend to perceive the threat of terrorism as more serious than participants lower on nationalism. Moreover, we found that nationalism mediated the relationship between the perceived terrorist threat and the support for tough domestic policies, even at the expense of considerable limitation of civil liberties. Study 2 confirms the link between the perceived terrorism threat and the support for suspension of civil liberties. Nevertheless, when terrorism was seen in terms of crime rather than in terms of war, the mediating role of nationalism disappeared. The results contribute to a better understanding of the process whereby the perception of one's own national group and the perception of one's own nation-state translate into specific reactions triggered by external threats.

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Motherland under attack! Nationalism, terrorist threat, and support for the restriction of civil liberties

Sekerdej¹,

Kossowska²

2011

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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“…These interventions would be designed to help leave the past behind. The traumata suffered could be dealt with in other ways as well: “Culture-appropriate rituals need to be developed to deal with the traumata … [and] a ‘Day of the Victimized Groups’ could be instituted in which the various victimizations could be publicly acknowledged” (Pick, 1997a, pp. 391–392).…”

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The myth of the trauma/the trauma of the myth: Myths as mediators of some long-term effects of war trauma.

Pick¹

2001

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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This article attempts a systematic comparison of the myths surrounding the Battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389, that of the Boyne in 1690 in Ireland, that of Mohacs in Hungary in 1526, and finally the Battle of Alcazarquivir in Morocco in 1578. The purpose of the comparison is to establish some of the ingredients that account for a perpetuation of the trauma and cause havoc in future generations. The working hypothesis put forward is that 2 noxious factors playing a central role in the causation of inter-ethnic war are (a) unmourned traumata with (b) the associated rage being directed outward and not inward, and that both are significantly mediated by the myths associated with the traumata.What do the Battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389 and the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 have in common? One may read about them in news analyses of the problems of the former Yugoslavia and of Northern Ireland, respectively, because of their direct relevance to events taking place now. They were defining events for the people concerned and remain defining events to this day, causing havoc along the way. On the other hand, two other battles that had a very strong traumatic impact in their respective nations, Hungary and Portugal, did not produce similar disastrous results in the long run. In these and similar cases what matters as much as, maybe even more than, the event itself is the myth that is built around it. EFFECTS OF TRAUMASevere trauma shatters the world of the one who suffers it and usually results in a severe crisis of meaning. Faith in having control over one's life and trust in the environment and in justice is shattered in most cases, and many a long-held assumption about the worthiness of one's life is likely to be questioned (Herman, 1994; van der PEACE

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“…But the victim image is by no means limited to Jewish culture. Victimhood, real and perceived, has been found to play a role in the ethnic identity of many minority groups (Furedi, 1998;Renwick and Qing, 1999) and in nationalist movements (Khazanov, 1997;Pick, 1997). ''It is self-deluding to think that the ideas of oppression and victimhood lurk far behind the question of ethnicity.…”

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Symbols of Diaspora Jewish identity: An international survey and multi-dimensional analysis

Cohen

2008

Religion

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a b s t r a c tSymbols are important in representing religious and ethnic identity, particularly in the postmodern age. Using a case study of Jewish adolescents, this article explores the use of symbols in expressing identity. A structural typology of symbols is developed, based on responses to a list of 20 symbols of Jewish identity by over 40,000 Jewish youth from around the world, who were surveyed during educational tours to Israel. The multi-dimensional smallest space analysis (SSA) technique is used to develop the typology by graphically representing the correlations between the symbols. Symbols representing the struggle of the weak against the strong are at the core of the typology. This core is surrounded by sets of symbols related to religion, family, Israel, the Holocaust, justice, and contribution to world culture. A parallel centre-periphery structure indicates that people are more central symbols than places or objects. Sub-populations of self-defined ''religious'' and ''non-religious'' Jewish youth are compared in relation to this typology of symbols by introducing them into the SSA as ''external variables''. Applications of the typology of symbols to other ethnic and religious groups are explored.

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Eastern European militant nationalism: Some causes and measures to counteract it.

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Motherland under attack! Nationalism, terrorist threat, and support for the restriction of civil liberties

Motherland under attack! Nationalism, terrorist threat, and support for the restriction of civil liberties

The myth of the trauma/the trauma of the myth: Myths as mediators of some long-term effects of war trauma.

Symbols of Diaspora Jewish identity: An international survey and multi-dimensional analysis

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