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A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or
failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to
an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some
diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political
inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even
separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from
early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of
the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the
slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch
across ethnic divides and build national unity. Using datasets that
cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmer's
theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational
processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic
assimilation, and the states' capacity to provide public goods.
Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the
early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation
building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how
providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies
together; and he shows that the differences between China and
Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build
political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals,
based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that
these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation
building better than competing arguments such as democratic
governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political
alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities
are represented at the highest levels of government, the general
populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further
deepening national political integration. Offering a long-term
historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds
important new light on the challenges of political integration in
diverse countries.
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 in violation of the principles 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.
Nationalism and the prevalence of ethnic conflict are features of contemporary politics. Many commentators have viewed such conflicts as a return to some primitive impulse. Andreas Wimmer's book argues that nationalism is in fact characteristic of the modern world, deriving from the nature of the state. He argues that the nation-state rests on membership of a particular ethnic or national group, and the exclusion of non-members, creating the potential for conflict. Containing detailed studies of Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, this is an original contribution to a topical debate.
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 in violation of the principles 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.
Nationalism and the prevalence of ethnic conflict are features of contemporary politics. Many commentators have viewed such conflicts as a return to some primitive impulse. Andreas Wimmer's book argues that nationalism is in fact characteristic of the modern world, deriving from the nature of the state. He argues that the nation-state rests on membership of a particular ethnic or national group, and the exclusion of non-members, creating the potential for conflict. Containing detailed studies of Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, this is an original contribution to a topical debate.
Das Buch fuhrt einen neuen Begriff von Kultur als Prozess des
Aushandelns von Bedeutungen ein und plausibilisiert diesen in einer
Reihe von empirischen Studien.
Das Buch fuhrt einen neuen Begriff von Kultur als Prozess des
Aushandelns von Bedeutungen ein und plausibilisiert diesen in einer
Reihe von empirischen Studien."
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Pflegewissenschaften,
Note: 1, Veranstaltung: Facharbeit, ''Kurs 71, Weiterbildung
Intensivpflege," 13 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:
Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Zusatzlich wurde ein Nachtrag dazugefugt. die
Arbeit wurde als "sehr gut" und uberdurchschnittlich lange fur eine
Facharbeit in der CH, bewertet., Abstract: Beim jahrlichen
Fluchtlingstag in Dornbirn/Osterreich war ich als Zuschauer
anwesend. Es gab dort einen Tisch auf dem lauter Kartchen ausgelegt
waren, auf denen Dinge aufgeschrieben standen wie: Schuhe, Geld,
Ausweis, Kleidung, Familie, Haus, ...Ich wurde aufgefordert mir
funf Dinge auszusuchen, die ich auf eine Flucht mitnehmen wurde.
Zwei Kartchen musste ich sofort wieder zuruckgeben. Anschliessend
musste ich durch einen Tunnel kriechen in dem unterschiedlichste
Hindernisse zu uberwinden waren, wie ein Stacheldraht, Stuhle,
Ecken. Danach kam ich in ein Schlauchboot und mir wurde ein Film
prasentiert, wie ich zusammen mit 30 Schwarzafrikanern
zusammengepfercht im Schlauchboot sitze und in Spanien nachts
sofort von der Kustenpolizei aufgegriffen werde. Ich kam dann in
ein Fluchtlingslager und fand mich vor einem Schreibtisch wieder.
Hinter dem Schreibtisch waren Plakate aufgehangt in einer mir nicht
bekanten Schrift und Sprache. Die Dame hinter dem Schreibtisch
sprach wild, in einer fremden Sprache auf mich ein und das einzige
was ich verstand war: your passport please ." Ewig lang wartete ich
dann, dass es weitergehen wurde. Zum Gluck war fur mich alles nur
ein Spiel und ich durfte weitergehen, fur MigrantInnen, die als
Patienten in unseren Intensivstationen behandelt werden, konnte
diese Fluchtgeschichte Realitat gewesen sein. In meiner
schriftlichen Arbeit mochte ich mich mit MigrantInnen in der
Intensivstation beschaftigen. Immer wieder habe ich beobachtet,
dass es zu Missverstandnissen, Aggressionen und Vorurteilen im
Umgang mit auslandischen Patienten kommt. Um hinter diese
Missverstandnisse, Ag
Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the
world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of
terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the
attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and
nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to
peace and security across the globe. Causes of such conflict and
ideas about how to address it are hotly debated in the literature
that has emerged over the past fifteen years. This volume offers a
unique overview of research and policy approaches to ethnic
conflicts. It is the first book to bring together experienced
policymakers and key scholars from all disciplines. They debate how
to best understand the rise and escalation of ethnic conflict,
assess different strategies for peacemaking, mediation, and
reconciliation, and evaluate the prospects for conflict management
through institutional design. In contrast with a more enthusiastic
assessment of the willingness and capacity to successfully
intervene in ethnic conflict, this volume documents the new realism
that has emerged over the past decade. It recognizes the complex
and protracted nature of such conflicts and demands a multifaceted,
case-by-case approach sustained by long-term political engagement.
Published in co-operation with the Center for Development Research,
University of Bonn.
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