The Rise of “State-Nations”

Stepan, Alfred; Linz, Juan J.; Yadav, Yogendra

doi:10.1353/jod.0.0187

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“…The second factor our analysis highlights is the complicated relationship between federalism and national identity formation which manifests itself in lacking consensus among political actors in Chisinau over the institutional organization of the state (Stepan, 1999;Bunce, 2004;Bunce & Watts, 2005;Stepan, Linz & Yadav, 2010). Parties to the right or centre-right of the political spectrum advocate political unitarism, or what Stepan, Linz & Yadav (2010, p. 52) called "nation-state policies", favouring a dominant position of the majority population rather than protecting or even promoting cultural and lingual diversity.…”

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Federalism, National Identity and Overcoming Frozen Conflicts: Moldova's Experience

Wolfschwenger

Saxinger²

2020

Ethnopolitics

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In the Republic of Moldova struggles for independence and over national identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s resulted in two conflicts with the Gagauz minority and separatists in the region of Transnistria. In this paper we compare and contextualize the settlement processes and pay specific attention to Chisinau's perceptions of the two conflicts. Our analysis highlights how Gagauz autonomy and Transnistrian separatism are situated in the complex relationship between geopolitics and domestic identity politics that reproduces cleavages among Moldova's political stakeholders. This is a major obstacle to a coherent position of Chisinau and the implementation of autonomy arrangements in both cases.

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Federalism, National Identity and Overcoming Frozen Conflicts: Moldova's Experience

Wolfschwenger

Saxinger²

2020

Ethnopolitics

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“…The twentieth century has undoubtedly marked the sidereal hour of the French nation-state, which has been exported and imported -forcefully and willingly -, changed, adjusted, modified, and altered according to local contexts. Nevertheless, newer research on "state-nations" more able to cope with diversity, ambiguity, and hybrid identities (Stepan et al, 2010) render the imperial model from a discontinued one to a very up-to-date model worth digging deeper into.…”

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Doing Nation in Empires: The Emergence of Turkey and Austria

Muratović

Gimpl

2020

Croatian Journal of Education

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This article examines nation-building in relation to education and educationalinstitutions, taking two former big players in European politics in the wake of theFirst World War as examples: the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire. TheHabsburg Empire is examined by focusing particularly on textbooks around and after1918, comparing them with each other and understanding them as major tools forspreading national ideas within state school. As will be shown, the idea of an Austriannation can hardly be found, neither before nor immediately after the break of 1918,in the sense of the ideology of a nation-state. On the other hand, the Ottoman Empireis being examined as an example for doing nation in a process of transformation ofsocial structures within non-western societies through western-style schools, thuscontributing to nationally substantiating the Republic of Turkey. This article examinesthe imperial foundations of these two nation-states and how they and the precedingempires dealt with the modern concept of nation and nationalism.Key words: Austria; Habsburg Empire; nation-building; Ottoman Empire; Turkey

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“…Since the 1990s, there have been discussions of re-founding the Bolivian State. In other words, changing the fundamental premise of statehood from one State with one nation to one State with many nations (Stepan et al, 2010).…”

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A plurinational transformation: an entanglement between change and continuity

Alvarez

2022

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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The persistence of a broad coalition of social movements, including Indigenous-led protests in the 1990s, the War on Gas, War on Water and the election of Evo Morales, contributed to a Plurinational Constitution in 2009. The result was a profound reframing of the social contract, enshrining legal, political and social pluralism. Nevertheless, the extent to which these measures have led to an improvement is still debated. For this reason, based on 22 interviews in La Paz and Sucre with former Constituent Assembly members from 2017 to 2019, this article examines the role of social movements in contesting the status quo. Second, it explores whether the pluralistic measures have changed the situation of Indigenous peoples and decolonised the governance model.

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The Rise of “State-Nations”

Abstract: Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a congeries of “national” groups and cultures in a single and wisely conceived federal republic?

Cited by 28 publications

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Federalism, National Identity and Overcoming Frozen Conflicts: Moldova's Experience

Federalism, National Identity and Overcoming Frozen Conflicts: Moldova's Experience

Doing Nation in Empires: The Emergence of Turkey and Austria

A plurinational transformation: an entanglement between change and continuity

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