TY  - GEN
T1  - Ethnonationalism : the quest for understanding
A1  - Connor, Walker, 1926-2017
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1034667076
AB  - Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications. In these essays, which have appeared over the course of the last three decades, he argues that Western scholars and policymakers have almost invariably underrated the influence of ethnonationalism and misinterpreted its passionate and nonrational qualities. Several of the essays have become classics: together they represent a rigorous and stimulating attempt to establish a secure methodological foundation for the study of a complicated phenomenon increasingly, if belatedly, recognized as the major cause of global political instability. The book opens by reviewing a wide range of scholarship on ethnonationalism. Connor examines nineteenth-and early twentieth-century debate among British scholars on the viability and desirability of the multinational state, the American "nation-building" school of thought that dominated the literature on political development in the post-World War II era, and the recent explosion of literature on ethnonationalism. In the second part of the book, he shows how progress in the study of ethnonationalism has been hampered by terminological confusion, an inclination to perceive homogeneity even where heterogeneity thrives, an unwarranted tendency to seek explanation for ethnic conflict in economic differentials, and lack of historical perspective. The book closes with a consideration of the inherent limitations of rational inquiry into the realm of group-identity.
OP  - 234
CN  - JC311 .C644 1994
SN  - 9780691186962
SN  - 0691186960
SN  - 9780691087849
SN  - 0691087849
SN  - 9780691025636
SN  - 0691025630
KW  - Nationalism.
KW  - Ethnic relations : Political aspects.
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects.
KW  - Ethnic groups : Political activity.
KW  - National characteristics : Political aspects.
KW  - World politics.
KW  - Ethnic Groups : Political aspects.
KW  - Nationalisme.
KW  - Relations interethniques : Aspect politique.
KW  - Ethnicité : Aspect politique.
KW  - Groupes ethniques : Activité politique.
KW  - Caractéristiques nationales : Aspect politique.
KW  - Politique mondiale.
KW  - nationalism.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights.
KW  - Ethnic groups : Political activity
KW  - Ethnic relations : Political aspects
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects
KW  - National characteristics : Political aspects
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - World politics
KW  - Ethnizität
KW  - Ethnosoziologie
KW  - Forschung
KW  - Nationalismus
KW  - Etnische betrekkingen.
KW  - Caractère national.
KW  - Relations internationales.
KW  - Identité collective.
ER  -