...links the cultural and the political components of nationalism even more strongly and argues that, nationalism is primarily a political principle which...the political and national unit should be congruent. . . . Nationalist sentiment is the feeling of anger aroused by the violation of the principle or the...

...5 It is this aspect which distinguishes ethno-nationalism from the other versions of nationalism. 6 "Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent". E. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 1983, p. 1. 7 This aspect...

...initiated Yugoslavia's collapse. Ernest Gellner has a definition of nationalism that is worth reproducing: Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which...the political and national unit should be congruent. Nationalism as a sentiment, or as a movement, can best be described in terms of this principle. Nationalist...

...specific form of consciousness. On the first page of Nations and Nationalism, Gellner asserts that "nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent" (1983, p. 1). According to Gellner, nationalism emerges only...

...Seite aufweist, die schließlich für nationalistische Bewegungen in besonderem Maße motivierend ist: "Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent. Nationalism is a sentiment, or as a movement, can best be defined...

...organization." Ibid. Also similar are EJ Hobsbawm and Ernest Gellner, who define nationalism as "primarily a principle which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent." Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780, p. 9, quoting and adopting Gellner's definition. However,...

...Greater China. One interpretation comes from the classical definition by Ernest Gellner. He argues that nationalism "is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit ' "Change in the Chinese Economic Area and Its Implication," sponsored by the East-West...

...(Anthony D. Smith, National Identity, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 73) and by Ernest Gellner, who says that '[nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent' (Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, Oxford: Blackwell,...

...be nations by themselves. The modernity of nation and nationalism Ernest Gellner (1983: 1) asserts: 'Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.' The term originated during modernization and industrialization...

...instrument of the people, and that makes it imperative to know clearly who constitutes the people: Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which...the political and national unit should be congruent. The struggles to make the state and the nation congruent have been at the root of much of the slaughter...