Демократизация и национализъм в посткомунистическите преходи
Democratization and nationalism in the post-communist transitions

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the interlocking relations between democratization processes and phenomena of nationalism after the end of the Cold war. The question is whether democratization processes are impeded by nationalism or nationalism is of importance for the democratization of a political community. Answers are sought through mapping the areas of compatibility and incompatibility in the nationalism-democratization relationship in both normative-theoretical and empirical plans. The exploration shows that the nature of the relationship is complex and ambiguous which rules out any straightforward conclusions. The revealed multiple and diverse causal interdependencies within the nationalism-democratization relationship indicate at the complex dynamics and temporal transformations in the relations between processes of democratization and appearances of nationalism in post-communist transition.

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