The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism

Kecmanovic, Dusan

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“…Kečmanovic´'s themes of 'watershed' and 'turning-point' are useful here. 10 Both of these types of myth suggest a change in the historical destiny of the nation, when the nation is at last able to correct the injustices of the past. In this case, the historic injustice was the conversion of Serbs, or Croats, to Islam, and the loss of these people and their lands.…”

Section: Primordial and Constructed Nations: The Case Of The Bosnian mentioning

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“…This 'plot' was extremely popular among Serbian leaders, who enjoyed the symbolism of fighting against a powerful Islamic menace. 60 Radovan Karadzic´ also saw his role in worldhistoric proportions. He claimed that his mission as leader of the Bosnian Serbs was to insure that Islamic fundamentalism did not 'infect Europe from the south'.…”

Section: Serbs and The 'Moslem Traitors' In Bosnia-hercegovinamentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Greater Serbia’ and ‘Greater Croatia’

MacDonald¹

2018

Balkan Holocausts?

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Section: Primordial and Constructed Nations: The Case Of The Bosnian mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Serbs and The 'Moslem Traitors' In Bosnia-hercegovinamentioning

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‘Greater Serbia’ and ‘Greater Croatia’

MacDonald¹

2018

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“…Paraphrasing a nationalist view of teleology, he explains: 'We went through a period of national decline, of dissolution, of corruption and anarchy, our national interests were more or less systematically suppressed and ignored to the point where we must do something to radically change our destiny, to take it into our own hands, to make a new order emerge.' 22 Thus a nation that is partially destroyed or suppressed by a Fall may reawaken when the time is right. Of course in most cases the national leader, and not 'History' as such, determines when this period of national renaissance will begin.…”

Section: Myths Of Covenant and Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They began looking for more meaning on earth, and a traditional view of religion was successfully replaced by the 'pseudo-religious qualities of ethnic identification'. 26 The elevation of the nation to something mystical and eternal created a new focus of loyalty, encouraging people to sacrifice everything for their national lands, even if this meant laying down their lives. 27 Thus the adoption of religious imagery by nationalist leaders was an instrumental process, designed to protect a specific territory or legitimate the expansion of the borders of an existing nation-state.…”

Section: Primary Myths Of Identificationmentioning

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What is the nation?

MacDonald¹

2018

Balkan Holocausts?

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The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionising themselves and things, they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle cries and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time honoured disguise and borrowed language. (Henry Tudor in Political Myth) F OR SERBIAN AND Croatian nationalists, the manipulation of myths and national history performed an incredibly important role during the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1980s, and the wars of succession that followed after 1990. Before analysing these national myths, and their specific political objectives, it will be useful to understand what species, or general types, of myths have been used -and why. Reviewing the works of many major nationalism theorists, this chapter introduces a useful analytical model to help understand the nature of Serbian and Croatian myths, the types of imagery they invoke, and how they are structured. This will lay the groundwork for a more detailed study of how national myths have been used instrumentally in Serbia and Croatia to promote self-determination, the shifting of borders and populations, and the installation of despotic and corrupt regimes.Another goal of this chapter is to examine the legacy of the Biblical tradition on conceptions of nationalist myth and understandings of time in history. This involves applying Northrop Frye's cyclical view of history (Biblical teleology) to explain why certain myths (Covenant, divine election/chosenness, Fall/persecution, and Redemption) were so frequently used in the wars following the collapse of the SFRY. The use of Biblical teleology will also allow us to structure many of the pre-existing theories of nationalism into an analytical framework, with myths of Covenant, Fall, and Redemption acting as hubs in a cyclical view of how nationalists portray mythical time in history.Central to my analysis is an examination and understanding of Jewish 15

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“…Nationalists are highly cohesive and very willing to sacrifice for the nation. They are also more likely to be sensitive to such things as insults, frustration, and aggressive behavior by out-groups (M. L. Cottam & Cottam, 2001;Keckmanovic, 1996;Searle-White, 2001). The nation as an identity group is highly salient for nationalists, and it is very sensitive to perceptions of threat and opportunity to the nation, even when dealing with a perceived ally.…”

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The Management of Border Security in NAFTA

Cottam

Marenin

2005

International Criminal Justice Review

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As a free trade area, NAFTA requires the relatively unrestricted movement of people, goods, and services across the borders between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Although the proponents of NAFTA emphasize positive economic outcomes for the three partners, the dependence of those outcomes on open borders inevitably brings with it the prospect of greater opportunities for transnational criminal activities, generally, and for narcotrafficking, in particular. Managing the free flow of goods and people while limiting the free flow of illegal substances and criminals is the central dilemma of the war on drugs in NAFTA. Cooperation between the member states differs strikingly, with smooth cooperation along the northern border between the United States and Canada and a troubling lack of cooperation along the U.S.-Mexico border. The different patterns in cooperation among policy makers and law enforcement agencies are largely attributable to mutual perceptions and nationalism in all three countries.

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The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism

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‘Greater Serbia’ and ‘Greater Croatia’

‘Greater Serbia’ and ‘Greater Croatia’

What is the nation?

The Management of Border Security in NAFTA

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