Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Course Description
Course Requirements
Class attendance and active, informed participation are mandatory. Students must complete
the assigned readings prior to the seminar meetings. The oral presentations require each
student to analyze and report on a number of assigned readings for a given week. There will
also be a take-home mid-term essay. In addition, students are required to write a 15-page
literature review on a set of relevant reading, but the scope must be finalized in consultation
with the instructor. The review paper is due in the last class on Monday, May 2. Late papers
will result in grade reductions.
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Readings
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983)
Yael Tamir, Liberal Nationalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New
Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Recommended:
The above books are available at Mary Jane Books. The rest of the readings will be included
in a course pack available also at Mary Jane.
• Course syllabus
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February 14: Nationalism and Modernization II: The Cultural Perspective
• Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983)
• Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), 1-46
February 28: Nationalism and Modernization III: The Political and Ideological Perspective
• John Breuilly, “The State and Nationalism,” in Montserrat Guibernau and John
Hutchinson, eds. Understanding Nationalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001), 32-52
• Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993),
255-293
• Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 14-45
• Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2000), 93-113
• Selections by G. Mazzini, J. S. Mill, and Lord Acton from Omar Dahbour and
Micheline R. Ishay, The Nationalism Reader (NJ: Humanities Press, 1995), 87-118
• Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1992), 44-87
• Anthony W. Marx, Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003), 3-32
• Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British
Liberal Thought (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999), 1-45
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March 21: Liberalism and Nationalism II: Recent Debates
• Roman Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 1-15
• Richard Lowenthal, “Nationalism and Communism,” Problems of Communism
(November-December, 1962)
• Walker Connor, The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 5-42
• Terry Martin, “An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest
Form of Imperialism,” in R. G. Suny and T. Martin, eds. A State of Nations (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), 67-90.
• Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State
Promoted Ethnic Particularism,” Slavic Review 53:2 (Summer 1994): 414-452
• Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996), 83-103
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PART IV: NEW ISSUES OF NATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDING
• Hans-Georg Betz, Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1994), 1-4, 22-35
• Herbert Kitschelt, The Radical Right in Western Europe (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1995), 275-279
• Saul Newman, “Nationalism in Postindustrial Societies: Why States Still Matter,”
Comparative Politics 33:1 (October 2000): 21-40
• Anatol Lieven, “In the Mirror of Europe: The Perils of American Nationalism,”
Current History (March 2004): 99-106