Abstract
Nationalism, as a form of political discourse concerned with the legitimacy of government, originated in Western Europe and is based on the claim that there should be congruence between concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘state’.1 In nationalist discourse, the nation is defined, typically on the basis of territorial, cultural and ethnic criteria, as a population group that ought to have ‘a state of its own’.2 The state that sovereign political power and lawful coercive authority in society, is viewed as legitimate when it is ‘the state of a particular nation’. Rogers Brubaker has usefully distinguished between polity-seeking and nation-shaping types of nationalism. The proponents of polity-seeking (or polity-upgrading) nationalism ‘aim to establish or upgrade an autonomous national polity’.3 Nation-shaping (or nationalizing) nationalisms aim to ‘nationalize an existing polity’: they represent the desire of a ‘core nation’ within a polity to use state power to promote its interests.4
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Cosgrove, S. (2004). Background to the Study. In: Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230006003_1
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