Nationalisms: classified and explained

Abstract

Understanding nationalism is so obviously an urgent necessity that there is much to be said for the provision of a clearly delineated overview of the state of play among theorists of the subject. We shall see that nationalism faces historical stages, albeit not to quite the same extent as does economic development. The character of the stages of economic development is affected by history in an entirely different sense - that is, in terms of idiosyncrasy or accident. More particularly, the modern world political economy has been and continues to be deeply affected by the political style of the US. Similarly, some types of nationalism have been affected by particular historical combinations of analytic factors, whose conjunction may not recur. -from Author