‘Is imperialist nationalism an oxymoron?’<sup>*</sup>
Pål Kolstø
Abstract According to Ernest Gellner's celebrated definition, nationalism is a political principle that holds the and national unit should be congruent. Based on this Alexander Motyl has declared ‘nationalism imperialism are polar types’. Even so, dozens of books articles have used concept ‘imperialist nationalism’ without any qualms. Is just matter terminological confusion, or does it reflect deeper disagreement what phenomenon actually is? In lecture, I discuss as in standard literature find numerous historical actors take pride being both nationalists imperialists. distinguish between overseas colonial empires contiguous land‐based demonstrate cases, can found. latter case, shape either ‘nation‐building imperialism’, which strive for cultural homogenisation throughout state, ‘ethnocratic distinction ‘the imperial nation’ other groups retained. empires, only ethnocratic imperialism. As case study, analyse how Russian related fact Russia historically been an Empire.
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