This widely-used and highly-acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the main theoretical perspectives on nationalism. The 3rd edition has been revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the practical outworking of theory in the contemporary politics of nationalism.
Umut Özkirimli is Professor of Political Science at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University.
1. Introduction2. Discourses and Debates on Nationalism3. Primordialism/Perennialism4. Modernism5. Ethnosymbolism6. Contemporary Approaches to Nationalism7. Nationalism: Theory and Practice.