[10/10 SSRI Open Lecture] Nationalism and War: The Long-Term Perspective

Nationalism and War: The Long-Term Perspective

Speaker: Professor WIMMER, Andreas (Columbia University) 

Abstract

Nationalism demands that states be ruled by representatives of the nation, rather than by a dynasty or in the name of an imperial civilization. Nationalism has radically transformed the political world during the past 250 years and provided the ideological underpinning of many of the wars between and within states that were fought over this period. The talk highlights the mechanisms and pathways through which the global spread of nationalism led to the often violent break-up of empires, to wars between newly independent nation-state over ethnically mixed territories, and to civil wars over the ethno-political balance of power in these new states. It also offers two short excursus that seek to understand the Ukraine war and the Gaza conflict from this global comparative and long-term historical perspective.

Date   : Thursday, October 10, 2024

Time   ：16:30 − 19:00 (JST)

Venue  : International Conference Room at Dialogue House (2F)

Language : English

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