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Identity, Contingency, and Interaction: Historical Research and Social Science Analysis of Nation-State Proliferation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2019

Lynn M. Tesser
Lynn M. Tesser*
Affiliation:
Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: lynn.tesser@usmcu.edu
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Abstract

Scholars of nation-building and secession tend to prioritize elite or broader nationalist activism when explaining the proliferation of nation-states. Yet, recent historical research reveals a major finding: the influence of great powers tended to eclipse nationalist mobilization for new states in Latin America, the Balkans, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on recent trends in historical research largely unknown in other fields, this article examines context, timing, and event sequencing to provide a new approach to multi-case research on nation-state proliferation. Major power recognition of new states in the Balkans also emerges as transformational for the post-World War I replacement of dynastic empires with nation-states in Europe. These findings suggest a shift of focus to the interplay of nationalist activism and great power policy for explaining the spread of nation-states.

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nation-statesecessionself-determinationgreat powersnational indifference
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 412 - 428
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019 

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