Taming Eastern Nationalism

Tracing the Ideational Background of Double Standards of Post-Cold War Minority Protection

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ID6060964
AuthorsMatti Jutila (University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume15
Issue4
Pages627-651
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354066109345054
OpenAlexW2098946769
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited56

This article uses the logic of explanatory emancipation to criticize post-Cold War minority politics. The main argument is that the ideational background of the double standards of minority protection originates from a contested dichotomy of nationalism that divides nationalisms into Eastern ethnic/malignant nationalism and Western civic/benign nationalism. After presenting the theoretical tradition of the ‘Kohn dichotomy’, the article traces its use in post-Cold War academic and official policy papers. Through intertextual analysis, this article shows how the old theoretical tradition was recycled into a new context to dispel post-Cold War confusion. This article presents a Critical Realist view on how ideas and theories can be treated as parts of the causal analysis of social practices. With explicitly causal language, identifying possible forms for emancipatory action is easier than with constitutive analyses

Cold war · Emancipation · Epistemology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Post–Cold War era · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Turkey's Politics and Society

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