Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
About the Book Series
Founding Editor: William Safran (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
This series draws attention to some of the most exciting issues in current world political debate: nation-building, autonomy and self-determination; ethnic identity, conflict and accommodation; pluralism, multiculturalism and the politics of language; ethnonationalism, irredentism and separatism; and immigration, naturalization and citizenship. The series includes monographs as well as edited volumes, and through the use of case studies and comparative analyses will bring together some of the best work to be found in the field.
Consociational Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland: Uncertain Stability
1st Edition
Edited
By Timofey Agarin, Rupert Taylor
September 12, 2025
Consociational Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland, from leading scholars in the field, explores the evolution and challenges of consociational power-sharing in Northern Ireland for politics and societal relations. Contributors to this book highlight that scholarship on consociational democracy ...
Generations and Nationalism: Comparing Catalonia, Quebec, and Scotland
1st Edition
Edited
By Alain-G Gagnon, Luc Turgeon
September 02, 2025
Generations and Nationalism breaks new ground by placing the impact of generation and generational changes at the forefront of an investigation on the transformation of nationalist movements and the evolution of support for independence in Catalonia, Quebec and Scotland. The main ...
Immigration, Citizenship and Insecurity: An Australian Story
1st Edition
By Heli Askola
June 06, 2025
Immigration, Citizenship and Insecurity: An Australian Story explores how Australia’s policies on migration and nationality have shaped citizenship and social inclusion. The book examines the historical and contemporary intersections of citizenship, migration and insecurity, analysing key issues ...
A Theory of De Facto States: Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities
1st Edition
By Lucas Knotter
May 06, 2025
A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough ...
Shaping Nations and Markets: Identity Capital, Trade, and the Populist Rage
1st Edition
By Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira
December 18, 2024
Shaping Nations and Markets employs a mixed methods approach to contend that economic ideas, organization of domestic interests and their economic power, asymmetries of information, and political institutions do not sufficiently explain the formation of national interests in processes of trade ...
African Nationalism
1st Edition
By Benyamin Neuberger
October 08, 2024
African Nationalism offers an innovative perspective on the creation of nations and nationalism, and the role of race in nationalism overall, by bringing together a compilation of debates on African nationalism, from Pan-Africanism up to the present day. The book examines African nationalism in ...
The Rise of Nationalist Populism: Comparing Western European Right-Wing Political Parties
1st Edition
By Daniel Rueda
October 03, 2024
The Rise of Nationalist Populism explores the intersection between populism and nationalism, conducted through the discursive analysis of three Populist Radical Right parties that have gained prominence during the 2010s: Rassemblement National (France), Lega (Italy) and Vox (Spain). Due to its rise...
Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies: Rethinking Northern Ireland and South Africa
1st Edition
By Adrian Guelke
May 27, 2024
Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies examines what happened to Northern Ireland and South Africa after their miraculous political settlements in the 1990s, in which comparison between the two cases played a small but significant role. The author extends the story by ...
Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood: The Birth of Self-Determination
1st Edition
By André Liebich
January 29, 2024
Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation – most commonly understood as a linguistic community – is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination of the peculiarly ...
The Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Gladys Ganiel, David Mitchell
September 25, 2023
This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and the current state of identities and relationships in relation to the Northern Ireland conflict. It accesses the state of national identity politics in Northern Ireland a generation after the 1998 Agreement, as well as the impact ...
Unionisms in Times of Change: Brexit, Britain and the Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Todd, Dawn Walsh
September 25, 2023
Unions and unionisms are important because they offer an alternative form of politics to that of nation-states and nationalisms. They allow a wider variety of relations between a plurality of peoples, opening prospects of resolving territorial politics. But unionisms, as state- or polity-centred ...
Nations and Capital: The Missing Link in Global Expansion
1st Edition
By Zlatko Hadžidedić
May 31, 2023
Capitalism survives by adapting. Marx exposed its reliance on exploiting labour to generate profit. Polanyi warned that its hunger to commodify everything—nature, work, and even human bonds—destroys societies, sparking chaos. Yet capitalism endures, mutating through crises. Why? Nations and Capital...