Complexities of National Identity: Three Main Paradigms on the Emergence of Nations
Complexities of National Identity: Three Main Paradigms on the Emergence of Nations

Summary/Abstract: The present article examines some important theories and definitions related to the concepts of nation and nationalism in order to better understand their role in today’s ever-changing, cosmopolitan, globalizing context. It has become more and more challenging to specify enduring features of nationhood, to draw clear boundaries, to frame identities and there has been much talk about the challenges of globalization to the constraints of the nation- state. However there is no denial that nations and their attending discourses of nationalism have remained determining factors driving contemporary historical phenomena, and the article addresses the relevance of three main theoretical paradigms dealing with the current rise in nationalism.

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