The courses aim is to introduce students in the field of nationalism, ethnicity and national
minorities and to explain the theoretical framework of the topic. The course concentrates on
the major theories and approaches to nationalism.
Each class will start with a short lecture (30 minutes), where I will present the general
framework of the topic. Students will have to present in 10-15 minutes one of the compulsory
readings. This will be followed by discussions.
Requirements
Students will have to read one or two articles or chapters for each course (20-30 pages).
Students are encouraged to approach systematically the topics and take actively part in the
discussions. There will be a strong emphasis on the understanding of the theories, and less on
their applicability for particular cases. At the end of the semester students are required to
submit a paper.
General Suggested Readings
Alter, Peter: Nationalism. London: Arnold, 1989.
Balakrishnan, Gopal (ed.): Mapping the Nation. London & New York: Verso, 1996.
Calhoun, Craig: Nationalism. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997.
Hutchinson, John and Smith, Anthony D. (eds.): Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hutchinson, John and Smith, Anthony D. (eds.): Nationalism. Oxford University Press,
1994.
McCrone, David: The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrows Ancestors. London and New
York: Routledge, 1998.
Nairn, Tom: Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited. London: Verso, 1997.
Smith, Anthony D.: Nationalism and Modernism: a critical survey of recent theories of
nations and nationalism. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
Smith, Anthony D.: The Nation is History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and
Nationalism. University Press of New England, 2000.
Leoussi, Athena S.: Encyclopedia of Nationalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers, 2001.
Motyl, Alexander J. (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Nationalism. San Diego, CA: Academic
Press, (2 volumes), 2000.
Snyder, Louis L.: Encyclopedia of Nationalism. Chicago & London: St. James Press,
1990.
Hutchinson, John and Smith, Anthony D. (eds.): Nationalism: critical concepts in
political science. London & New York: Routledge, (5 volumes), 2000.
Sukumar Perival (ed.): Notions of Nationalism. Budapest: Central European University
Press, 1995.
O. Dahbour and M. R. Ishay (eds.): The Nationalism Reader. New Jersey: Humanities
Press, 1995.
Guibernau, Montserrat & Hutchinson, John (eds): Understanding Nationalism. Polity
Press, 2001.
Schpflin, George: Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe. London: Hurst
& Co., 2000.
1-2.
Introduction. What about is nationalism? Misconceptions on nationalism. What is a
Theory of Nationalism? General background. Differences and similarities between
sociological, political scientist, historical, psychological, economic and anthropological
approaches. Concepts in the scholarship of nationalism. Classifications. Typologies.
Brubaker, Rogers: Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism. In John A. Hall
(ed.): The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge
University Press, 1998, 272-305.
Hechter, Michael: Containing Nationalism. Oxford University Press, 2000. Chapters 1 and
2.
Brubaker, Rogers: Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the
New Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1996, Chapter 1. Rethinking nationhood:
nation as institutionalized form, practical category, contingent event.
Connor, Walker: Ethnonationalism: the quest for understanding. Princeton University
Press, 1994, Chapter 4. "Terminological Chaos ("A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an
Ethnic Group, Is a ")", 90-117.
Verdery, Katherine: Wither 'Nation' and 'Nationalism'? In Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.):
Mapping the Nation. London & New York: Verso, 1996, 226-234.
Hall, John A.: Nationalism, Classified and Explained. In Sukumar Perival (ed.): Notions
of Nationalism. Central European University Press, 1995, 8-33.
Seton-Watson, Hugh: Nations and States an enquiry into the origins of nations and the
politics of nationalism. London: Methuen, 1977, "Intorduction", 1-13.
Smith, Anthony D.: "Definitions" in Theories of Nationalism. London: Duckworth, 1971,
154-191.
Connor, Walker: Ethnonationalism: the quest for understanding. Princeton University
Press, 1994, Chapter 9 "When is a nation? ('From Tribe to Nation?')", 211-226.
Nairn, Tom: Faces of Nationalism: Janus revisited. London & New York: Verso, 1997,
Chapter 1. On Studying Nationalism, 1-17.
3-4.
a. Early understandings and approaches of nationalism. The roots.
J. S. Mill, Lord Acton, Giuseppe Mazzini, Ernest Renan, Herder, Karl Marx, the AustroMarxists (Otto Bauer, Karl Renner), Lenin, Stalin, Max Weber
b. The first theories. Carlton Hayes, E.H. Carr, Hans Kohn, Karl Deutsch, John
Plamenatz.
Renan, Ernest: What is a Nation? In O. Dahbour and M. R. Ishay (eds.): The Nationalism
Reader. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1995, 143-155.
Weber, Max: Economy and Society: An outline of interpretative sociology. Vol.1, Part II.,
Chapter 5. "Ethnic Groups" and chapter The Nation
Plamenatz, John: Two Types of Nationalism. In Eugene Kamenka (ed.): Nationalism: The
Nature and Evolution of an Idea. Edward Arnold, 1973, 23-54.
Kohn, Hans: Western and Eastern Nationalisms. In John Hutchinson & Anthony D. Smith
(eds.): Nationalism. Oxford University Press, 1994, 162-165.
5-6-7. Modernist approaches. Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Michael Mann, Liah
Greenfeld, E.J. Hobsbawm, Miroslav Hroch, John Breuilly, Michael Hechter, George
Schpflin
Gellner, Ernest: The Coming of Nationalism and its Interpretation: the myths of nation
and Class. In Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.): Mapping the Nation. London & New York:
Verso, 1996, 98-145.
Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983, Chapter 1. "Introduction", 1-7, Ch. 2 "Cultural Roots",
9-36, Ch. 3 "Origins of National Consciousness", 37-46.
Mann, Michael, The emergence of modern European Nationalism, In Hall, J. A. and I.C.
Jarvie (eds.), The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner, Amsterdam, 1996.
Greenfeld, Liah: Nationalism and Modernity, Social Research, Spring 1996.
Hroch, Miroslav: From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: the nationbuilding process in Europe. New Left Review, No. 198 (March-April), 1993, 3-20.
George Schpflin: Nationhood, Modernity, Democracy. Paper presented at the Conference
"Manifestations of National Identity in Modern Europe". University of Minnesota, May
2001.
Gellner, Ernest: Nations and Nationalism, Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell,
1983
Gellner, Ernest: Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997.
Hall, John A. (ed.): The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of
Nationalism. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hall, J. A. & Jarvie, I.C. (eds.): The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner. Amsterdam,
1996.
Hobsbawm, Eric - Ranger, Terence (eds.): The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge
University Press, 1983.
McCrone, David: The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrows Ancestors. London and New
York: Routledge, 1998, chapter Devils at his back: Nationalism and Ernest Gellner
Breuilly, John: The State and Nationalism. In M. Guibernau and J. Hutchinson (eds.):
Understanding Nationalism, Polity Press, 2001.
Hobsbawm, E. J.: Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality.
Cambridge University Press, 1990, " Introduction", Ch. 1. "The Nation as Novelty: from
revolution to liberalism" and Ch. 2 "Popular proto-nationalism", 1-79.
Gellner, Ernest: An Alternative Vision. In Encounters with Nationalism. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1994, 182-200.
Hroch, Miroslav: Real and Constructed: the nature of the nation. In John A. Hall (ed.):
The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge
University Press, 1998, 91-106.
Nairn, Tom: The Break-Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism. London: Verso, 1977.
Giddens, Anthony: The Nation-State and Violence: Volume two of a Contemporary
Critique of Historical Materialism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985.
National Minorities
14-15. Introduction. Methodology of research on national minorities. The question of
definition. Typologies of national minorities.
Brunner, Georges: Nation-States and Minorities in the Eastern Part of Europe. Regio,
1994.
Amersfoort, Hans von: 'Minority' as a sociological concept. Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Vol. 1., No. 2., April 1978.
Preece, Jennifer J.: National Minorities and the European Nation-States System. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1998; chapter: What is a national minority?
Lijphart, Arend, "Consociational Democracy", World Politics, January, 1969
Sugar, Peter F. and Ivo Lederer (eds.): Nationalism in Eastern Europe. University of
Washington Press, Seattle&London, 1969.
Kupchan, Charles A. (ed.): Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe. Ithaca and
London: Cornell Univertsity Press, 1995.
Seewann, Gerhard, Towards a Typology of Minorities - the Germans in Hungary, Regio,
1994
Szarka, Lszl, Typological Arrangement of the Central European Minorities, in
Cholnoky, Gyz (ed.), Minorities Research: a collection of studies by Hungarian authors,
Budapest: Lucidus, 2000
Girasoli, Nicola, National Minorities: Who are they?, Akadmiai, Budapest, 1995
16. National minorities and the state
McGarry, John, Demographic engineering: the state-directed movement of ethnic groups
as a technique of conflict regulation, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21 Nr. 4, July 1988
Brubaker, Rogers, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the
New Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1996; chapter Nationalizing states in the old
New Europe and the new
Mann, Michael: The dark side of democracy: the modern tradition of ethnic and political
cleansing. New Left Review, Nr. 235, May/June, 1999
Van den Berghe, Pierre: The modern state: nationbuilder or nation killer? International
Journal of Group Tensions, vol. 2, no. 3
17. Ethnic/national movements. Ethnic mobilisation. Ethnic parties. Ethnic conflict and
ethnic/national violence
Hechter, Michael and Levi, Margarite, The comparative analysis of ethnoregional
movements, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 2, Nr. 3, July 1979
Hroch, Miroslav, "From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: the nationbuilding process in Europe", New Left Review, No. 198 (March-April), 1993, pp. 3-20
Winter, Lieven de, "Ethno-regionalist Parties in Western Europe: Towards a Comparative
Analysis", Paper presented at the Panel on "Parties at the sub-national level" during the
Conference on Party Politics in the Year 2000. Manchester Conference Centre. 13-15
January 1995
Horowitz, Donald L., Ethnic Groups in Conflict, University of California Press, Berkeley
and Los Angeles, 1985
Drury, Beatrice, Ethnic mobilisation: some theoretical considerations, in Rex, John and
Drury, Beatrice (eds.), Ethnic Mobilisation in a Multi-cultural Europe, Avebury, 1994
Kemp, Walter (ed.): Quiet Diplomacy in Action. The Hague: Kluwer Law International,
2001.
Bogdanor, Vernon: Forms of autonomy and the protection of minorities. Daedalus, Vol.
126, no. 2, Spring, 1997.
Alfredson, Gudmundur: Different Forms of and Claims to the Right of SelfDetermination. In Donald Clark and Robert Williamson (eds.): Self-Determination:
International Perspectives. London: Macmillan Press LTD, 1996.
Vrady, Tibor: Collective Rights of Minorities and Majorities within the Context of
International Law. In Dual Images: Multiculturalism on Two Sides of the Atlantic.
Budapest: IPSHAS, 1996.