Nationalism as legitimation: the appeal of ethnicity and the plea for popular sovereignty

Walker Connor is seemingly both a primordialist and a modernist: Nations emanate from basic human sentiments but emerged in late modernity. Is this not an aberration, a contradiction both conceptual and causal? Connor, a champion of academic clarity, obviously thought not, and he was right. What acc...

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Published in:Nations and nationalism 2018-07, Vol.24 (3), p.528-534
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ethnic nationalism
Ethnicity
Human nature
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Legitimation
modernism
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Political science theories
political theory of the nation
primordialism
Scholarship
Solitude
Sovereignty
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Political science theories
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primordialism
Scholarship
Solitude
Sovereignty
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