Nations and Nationalism

Abstract

Nations are rarely thought of as sociological problems. Yet if politics is not about society, social relations and resources, what is it about? The problems of social cohesion, nations and nationalism go to the heart of the problems of the partition of Ireland and the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland or the break-up of Yugoslavia, a state that did not exist prior to 1914. Both illustrate the problem of nationalism as different ethnic groups sought to define borders according to the social relations of cultural interest. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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