Waves of war
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Titel |
Waves of war
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Untertitel |
nationalism, state formation, and ethnic exclusion in the modern world
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Verfasserangabe |
Andreas Wimmer
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Auflage |
1. publ.
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Ort |
Cambridge [u.a.]
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Umfang |
XI, 328 p.
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ISBN13 |
978-1-107-67324-3
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Fußnote |
includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:
Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world and delegitimized empire after empire. Nationalists created nation-states wherever the power configuration favored them, often at the end of prolonged wars of secession. The elites of many of these new states were institutionally too weak for nation-building and favored their own ethnic communities. Ethnic rebels challenged such exclusionary power structures that violated the principle of self-rule, and neighboring governments sometimes intervened into these struggles over the state. Waves of War demonstrates why nation-state formation and ethnic politics are crucial to understand the civil and international wars of the past 200 years. Table of Contents: Terms of Use 1Introduction and summary 2The birth of the nation 3The global rise of the nation-state 4Nation-state formation and war 5Ethnic politics and armed conflict 6Can peace be engineered? 7Conclusion Appendices |
Altersbeschränkung |
0
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Illustrationsangaben |
Ill., graph. Darst.
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