A More Perfect Union
genocide
30-yr civil war
19c population, industrialization, imperialism
- public health, bureaucracy, state regulation of daily life
- industrial war; total war of nation-states
Cold War (1945-89)
- communist block
- capitalist block
European Economic Community
European Union
Nationalism
"state" - "independent unit in a system of equal legal status
and rights"
(regardless of size or power)
multi-ethnic empire
territorial nation-state
- Italy
- Germany
- Austria, Eastern Europe, Middle East
From multi-ethnic empire to territorial state
| Austro-Hungarian
Empire |
- Austria
- Hungary
- Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia
|
| Russian Empire |
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Poland
|
| Ottoman Empire |
- Turkey
- Syria
- Iraq
- Palestine
- Trans-Jordan
- Egypt
- Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait
|
Myth of the Nation-State
- Assumptions
- cultural identities (nations) correspond with sovereign entities (states)
- system of independent, internally unified, equal units
- Problems
- to will unity out of diversity (e pluribus, unum)
| Post-WWI |
- Eastern Europe
- fought selves into existence
- Middle East
- invented by Europe / demise of Ottoman Empire
|
| Post-WWII |
|
- cultural identities span state boundaries
Hegemonic discourse
How can non-westerners make themselves understood to the West?
- Gandhi
- Oxford educated (law)
- Henry David Thoreau's non-violent resistance
- appealed to West in West's own terms
Modern = Western