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.
Competing Sovereignties: Parallel States, Public Services, and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Kosovo
1st Edition
By Ian Madison
May 04, 2026
Competing Sovereignties: Parallel States, Public Services, and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Kosovo examines thirty years of parallel state competition in Kosovo, exploring how ordinary people navigate between rival authorities when multiple states compete for their loyalty through the provision ...
Divided Loyalties, Electoral Rules, and Intra-Party Competition: Kurdish Politics in Iraq
1st Edition
By Soran Tarkhani
March 27, 2026
Divided Loyalties, Electoral Rules, and Intra-Party Competition explores how electoral systems, social divisions, and regional geopolitics have shaped the course of Kurdish politics in Iraq since the early 1990s. Combining comparative political analysis with field-based evidence, the book provides ...
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 objective of the ...
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 ...