Ebook: The Nation and Nationalism in Europe: An Introduction

An overview of the contending approaches to the nation and nationalism in a European context, this book explores a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including the controversial issue of theoretical dichotomy (civic versus ethnic nationalism) and attempts to overcome it. It also introduces three types of nationalism: ideology, social movement, and attitude, allowing for a systematic treatment of sub-state and central state nationalism. In conclusion the text looks at European nationalism in practice, offering new empirical findings from both in-depth single country cases and cross-country comparisons.

Pawel Karolewski is assistant professor of political philosophy at the University of Potsdam. He is coauthor, with Andrzej Marcin Suszycki, of Nationalism and European Integration and co-editor, also with Suszycki, of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Evidence. Andrzej Marcin Suszycki is a senior lecturer in international politics at the Humboldt University of Berlin.