Association for the Study of Nationalities
About the Book Series
The books in this series focus on the dynamics and interactions of significant minority and majority nationalisms in the context of globalisation and their social, political and economic causes and consequences. Each book is focused on an important topic drawn from the rigorously peer-reviewed articles published in Nationalities Papers and Ethnopolitics, and includes authoritative theoretical reflection and empirical analysis by some of the most widely recognized experts in the world.
The Comparative Approach to National Movements: Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Maxwell
October 14, 2024
Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this ...
Non-territorial Autonomy in Divided Societies: Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John Coakley
June 30, 2020
Non-territorial autonomy is an unusual method of government based on the notion of the devolution of power to entities within the state which exercise jurisdiction over a population defined by personal features (such as opting for a particular ethnic nationality) rather than by geographical ...
The Ethnopolitics of Ethnofederalism in Ethiopia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Erk
December 18, 2019
Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the country’s economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia is also a regional superpower with political influence across East Africa and the Horn. Furthermore, the African Union has its headquarters in the ...
Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Gëzim Krasniqi, Dejan Stjepanović
October 02, 2019
This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. Contributors address migrants and minorities in a novel and original way by adding the concept of ‘uneven citizenship’ to the debate surrounding the former ...
Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence: State of the Field and New Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Forsberg, Jóhanna K. Birnir, Christian Davenport
February 14, 2019
Ethnicity is one of the most salient and enduring topics of social science, not least with regard to its potential link to political conflict/violence. Despite, or perhaps because of, the concept’s significant use, all too seldom has the field paused to consider the state of our knowledge. For ...
Segment States in the Developing World: Conflict's Cause or Cure?
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Hoddie, Caroline Hartzell
November 06, 2018
This book considers the relationship between territorial autonomy arrangements and ethnic conflict. As a means of ethnic conflict management, autonomy arrangements enjoy wide support among policymakers and academics. Countries ranging from the Sudan, the Philippines, and Britain have in recent ...
From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Cultural Politics of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Identity in Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
October 18, 2018
The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences and humanities. Originally constructed under the dictates of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command economies, post-socialist urban centers ...
Migration and Divided Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Gilligan, Susan Ball
October 18, 2018
The study of 'divided societies' has focused, historically, on either ethnic divides in colonial (or post-colonial) societies or on developed Western democracies which have ethnic power-sharing Government structures. The study of divided societies emerged historically at a moment when ...
The Return to War and Violence: Case Studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Claas Behrends
October 18, 2018
This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and their change in late socialism and post-Communism are thus far understudied. Discussing the similarities...
State-building in the Western Balkans: European Approaches to Democratization
1st Edition
Edited
By Soeren Keil
August 23, 2018
The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change, focusing on the political, economic and social transformation of the region to prepare the countries for membership in the Union. EU enlargement has ...
Self-Determination in the early Twenty First Century: A Double Edged Concept
1st Edition
Edited
By Uriel Abulof, Karl Cordell
January 12, 2018
In a world in which change is constant, the principle of self-determination is important. Through (collective) acts of self-determination, nations exercise the right to govern themselves. At present the nation-state system with which we are familiar faces several challenges. In Western Europe, ...
Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sherrill Stroschein
August 12, 2016
This collection of original essays breaks new ground by examining the dynamics of ethnic politics at the local level, rather than following in the footsteps of many previous studies which focus on the macropolitical level of states and nations. Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities is based on ...