Small state imperialism

The Place of Empire in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID6307281
AuthorsMarharyta Fabrykant (0000-0001-5707-2943, Belarusian State University Minsk Belarus, corresponding author), Renee L Buhr (University of St. Thomas - Minnesota), Renee Buhr (University of St. Thomas Saint Paul Minnesota USA)
Year2016
Volume22
Issue1
Pages103-122
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nana.12148
OpenAlexW2214178588
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

Many modernEuropean nations can trace their heritage back to one of the large multinational empires that once encompassed much of theEuropean landscape, and nationalising elites often refer back to their place in these empires for the materials upon which their nation was purportedly built. In this article we examine someBelarusian nationalising elites and their references to theGrandDuchy ofLithuania in order to demonstrate a recent trend inEastEuropean small‐state national identity construction, which we refer to as ‘small state imperialism.’ Small state imperialism exhibits realist characteristics and paints the small nation's place in empires of the past as privileged and aggressive, and in this way deviates from the oppressed but morally superior image one typically expects of a small nation. This interpretation is not limited toBelarus; in a number ofEastEuropean states a similar imperialist turn has taken root in nationalist discourses

Aesthetics · Economics · Empire · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Multinational corporation · National identity · Nationalism · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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