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Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, the recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East signals the return of geopolitics. This book challenges conventional approaches that ignore border change, arguing that geopolitics is driven by nationalism and focusing on how nationalism transforms the state. Using geocoded historical maps covering state borders and ethnic groups in Europe, the authors' spatial approach shows how, since the French Revolution, nationalism has caused increasing congruence between state and national borders and how a lack of congruence increased the risk of armed conflict. This macroprocess is traced from early modern Europe and widens the geographic scope to the entire world in the mid-twentieth century. The analysis shows that the risk of conflict may be increased by how nationalists seeking to revive past golden ages and restore their nations' prestige respond to incongruent borders. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Setting the Analytical Stage: 1. Nationalism and the state in the literature; 2. A theory of nationalist state transformation; 3. Operationalizing state-nation congruence; Part II. Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: 4. War and state formation in Early Modern Europe; 5. Nationalism and the puzzle of reversing state size; 6. Shaping states into nations; Part III. Nationalist State Transformation and War: 7. Nationality questions and war; 8. Restorative nationalism and war; 9. Railroads, separatist mobilization and conflict; 10. Nationalism, right-peopling and ethnic cleansing; Part IV. Policy Consequences: Toward Nationalist Geopolitics?: 11. Conclusions for research and practice; Part V. Supplementary Information: S4. War and state formation in Early Modern Europe; S5 Nationalism and the puzzle of reversing state size; S6. Shaping states into nations; S7. Nationality questions and war; S8. Restorative nationalism and war; S9. Railroads, separatist mobilization, and conflict; S10. Nationalism, 'right-peopling' and ethnic cleansing; Bibliography; Index.
