Ethnic nationalism is today disdained by many, even as its importance is increasing in the West.But the liberation of Lithuania 28 years ago this month—and indeed the liberation of most of ...

Even with a growing sense of ethnic nationalism, pan-Ethiopian nationalism still enjoys wider acceptance among the Amhara elites, argues Chalachew Taddese, a contributor for Wazema, ...

The ethnic and cultural homogeneity nationalists seek is usually impossible to achieve without it. The second effect of nationalism is that it tends to concentrate state power in a single person, ...

The result was an ethnic nationalism sanctified by religion as it established a new “holy trinity” of “freedom, order and violence,” meted out variously to in-groups and out.

The Ukrainian official swing to ethnic nationalism represents a failure on the part of President Volodymyr Zelensky. He is, after all, himself a Russian-speaking Jew, and defeated Poroshenko on a ...

With ethnic nationalism once again rearing its ugly head in Russia and so many places around the world, the conflict serves as a grim reminder of where that ideology leads.

Nationalism is typically seen as the preserve of right-wing politics, and it has long been a cornerstone of authoritarian and fascist governments around the world. In democratic countries the term ...

How to Stop Ethnic Nationalism From Tearing Ethiopia Apart. The 1994 Ethiopian Constitution celebrated self-determination, but it laid the groundwork for today’s violence.

Nationalism has a bad reputation today. It is, in the minds of many educated Westerners, a dangerous ideology.Some acknowledge the virtues of patriotism, understood as the benign affection for one’s ...

After we gained independence from the British in 1948, Buddhist nationalism turned into an anti-ethnic minority movement. Many Buddhist nationalists believed that ethnic minorities easily embraced ...