This working paper explores the reasons commonly identified for the rise of political and radical Islam throughout the …

achievement trait (income). Individuals with lower cognitive ability are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to have …

Summary: Alienation and exclusion: Africa’s new nationalism in times of globalization – The new nationalism in Africa … movements of the early 1960s. Contrary to the first nationalism, the second is less prone to include than to exclude populations …; alienation, xenophobia and its political instrumentalization are its curse. The new nationalism has been shaped decisively by the …

About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism … nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …

argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their … data on international conflict from the Correlates of War project. Only the diversionary theory of nationalism is supported …. This conclusion is an important contribution to our understanding of nationalism as well as of the effects of economic …

We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that … use the universe of Croatian birth certificates and the information about nationalism conveyed by first names to contrast … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …

and social improvement, which also involves important aspects about the nation-state (national identity, nationalism …). This paper will focus on the meanings and the dimensions of contemporary nationalism and will later look at the impact of …