over the essential characteristics of nation and nationalism and the relevance ...
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).
Political Science 561 Nationalism and Nation-Building State University of New York at Albany Fall 2013 Monday 2:45 – 5:35 Office Hours: Tuesday 12:35 – 2:35 E-mail:
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Professor Cheng Chen Office: Milne Hall 214A Phone: 591-8724
Course Description This course is designed to cover different conceptualizations of “nation” and “nationalism”; interpretations of historical and social developments associated with the building and emergence of nations and nationalist movements, and strategies for locating the study of nationalism in a more general theoretical framework. The course begins with discussions over the essential characteristics of nation and nationalism and the relevance of the problem of identity. It then provides a survey of major scholarly models and theories of nationalism, such as instrumentalist, constructivist, and primordialist views of nationalism. The third part of the course examines the theoretical and historical evolution of nationalism, nationalist movements, and nation-building. Specifically, it explores nationalism’s encounters with major political traditions such as liberalism, Leninism, and anti-colonialism, and the consequences of these encounters. The fourth part of the course addresses some of the most salient contemporary issues related to the national question, including the effects of globalization and the resurgence of nationalism in the post-Cold War era. The course concludes by situating the study of nationalism and nation-building in broader comparative inquiries of social change. The objectives of this course are to familiarize the student with both classical and recent scholarly debates regarding nationalism and nation-building, and to help the student develop an appreciation for historically-grounded comparative theorybuilding.
Course Requirements Your grade in this course will be determined in the following manner: Seminar participation Oral presentations Take-home midterm 15-page literature review
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Class attendance and active, informed participation are mandatory. Students must complete the assigned readings prior to the seminar meetings. The oral presentations require each student to analyze and report on a number of assigned readings for a given week. There will also be a take-home mid-term essay. In addition, students are required to write a 15-page literature review on a set of relevant reading, but the scope must be finalized in consultation with the instructor. The review paper is due in the last class on Monday, December 9. Late papers will result in grade reductions.
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Readings Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983) Yael Tamir, Liberal Nationalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Recommended: Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) The above books are available at Mary Jane Books. The rest of the readings are available on Blackboard. They will also be included in a course pack available at Mary Jane. Those marked with “available on-line” can be retrieved by the on-line links provided on the syllabus or by clicking on “Journals - Print and Online” from the Libraries web page and typing in the title of the journal in the search box.
PART I: CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF NATIONALISM
August 26: Introduction
Course syllabus
September 9: Nation and Nationalism
“The Question of Definition,” in John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith, eds. Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 15-46 Walker Connor, “A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group is a…,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 1:4 (1978): 377-397 [available on-line] Ernst Haas, “What is Nationalism and Why Should We Study it?” International Organization 30:3 (1986): 707-744 [available on-line] Lowell W. Barrington, “’Nation’ and ‘nationalism’: The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics 30:4 (December 1997): 712-716 [available on-line] Rawi Abdelai, Yoshiko Herrera, Alastair Johnston and Rose McDermott, “Identity as a Variable,” Perspectives on Politics 4:4 (2006): 695-711 [available on-line]
PART II: MODELS AND THEORIES OF NATIONALISM September 16: Nationalism and Modernization I: The Developmental Perspective
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Friedrich List, National System of Political Economy (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856), 61-82 [available for free on-line at Google Books] Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962), 5-30, 353-364 Karl Deutsch, Nationalism and Social Communication (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1953), 60-80, 139-160 Liah Greenfeld, “Nationalism and Modernity,” Social Research 63:1 (1996): 3-35 [available on-line]
September 23: Nationalism and Modernization II: The Cultural Perspective
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 18701914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976), chapters 1 and 18 Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), entire book Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), 1-46
September 30: Nationalism and Modernization III: The Political and Ideological Perspective
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 255-293 Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 14-45 Barry Posen, “Nationalism, the Mass Army and Military Power,” International Security 18:2 (1993): 80-124 [available on-line] Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 93-113 Rogers M. Smith, “Citizenship and the Politics of People-Building,” Citizenship Studies 5:1 (2001): 73-96 [available on-line]
October 7: Challenges to the Modernist Paradigm
Clifford Geertz, “The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States,” in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 255-279 John A. Armstrong, Nations before Nationalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 3-11 Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 2866 Patha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 3-13 Caspar Hirschi, The Origins of Nationalism: An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 149
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PART III: NATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDING IN HISTORY
October 21: Liberalism and Nationalism I: Early Encounters
Selections by G. Mazzini, J. S. Mill, and Lord Acton from Omar Dahbour and Micheline R. Ishay, The Nationalism Reader (NJ: Humanities Press, 1995), 87-118 Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 1-26; 44-87 Anthony W. Marx, Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 3-32; 113-141 Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999), 1-45
October 28: Liberalism and Nationalism II: Recent Debates
Yael Tamir, Liberal Nationalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), entire book Liah Greenfeld, “Liberal Nationalism (Review),” The American Political Science Review 88:2 (June 1994): 456-457 Ian S. Lustick, “Liberalism and Nationalism: Can They Be Joined?” Journal of International Law and Politics 27:1 (Fall 1994)
November 4: Communism and Nationalism I: Theoretical Foundation
Roman Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 1-15 Richard Lowenthal, “Nationalism and Communism,” Problems of Communism (November-December, 1962) Walker Connor, The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 5-42
November 11: Communism and Nationalism II: Practice
Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism,” Slavic Review 53:2 (Summer 1994): 414-452 Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 83-103 Terry Martin, “An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism,” in R. G. Suny and T. Martin, eds. A State of Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 67-90. Mark R. Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1-46
November 18: Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism
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Selections by Gandhi, V. I. Lenin, W. Wilson, and F. Fanon from Vincent P. Pecora, ed., Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 207-235, 264-275 Rupert Emerson, From Empire to Nation: The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African People (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960), 3-21 Jeffrey Herbst, “The Creation and Maintenance of National Boundaries in Africa,” International Organization 43:4 (1989): 673-692 [available on-line] Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young, “Convergence to Crisis: Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia,” in M. R. Beissinger and C. Young, eds., Beyond State Crisis: Postcolonial Africa and PostSoviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002), 19-50
PART IV: NEW ISSUES OF NATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDING
November 25: New Theories of Nationalism
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), 1-35
December 2: The Future of Nationalism
Saul Newman, “Nationalism in Postindustrial Societies: Why States Still Matter,” Comparative Politics 33:1 (October 2000): 21-40 [available on-line] Michael Hechter, Containing Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 134-159 Michael Keating, “European Integration and the Nationalities Question,” Politics and Society 32:3 (2004): 367-388 [available on-line] Anatol Lieven, “In the Mirror of Europe: The Perils of American Nationalism,” Current History (March 2004): 99-106 Dani Rodrik, “Who Needs the Nation State?” Economic Geography 89:1 (2013): 119 [available on-line]
December 9: Paper due
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