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The enormous volume of writing on nationalism in recent years has tended both to anticipate and reflect geopolitical events in the world. Neglected in the wake of the Second World War for which it was blamed by many, nationalism as a subject began to attract scholarly attention again in the early 1980s, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union made it a central focus for academics. Nowadays, the number of postgraduate courses, conferences, journals and books devoted to nationalism demonstrate how important and fashionable it has become.