Izvorni znanstveni članak
Power and Ethnonationalism
Vjeran Katunarić
; Odsjek za sociologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The fact that modern development does not diminish the importance of ethnonational identity and conflict and the creation of nation-states is explained as an effect of the two-fold action of modern elites, both of the liberal and bolshevik type. The first (i.e. liberal) pattern seeks a universalistic form of legitimization, and it is based on the expansion of economic and (military-)political power in international dimensions: via the world market and (military-)political alliances. This pattern is chronically unstable due to cyclical economic crises and political tension and conflicts. The second pattern is particularistic and based on a deep-level fusion of the power and prestige of elites with local collective memberships and facets of meaning such as ethnonational identity and the nation-state. This pattern of power is more reliable and “familiar”, and it more easily withstands economic and political convulsions brought about by domestic and foreign actors. Therefore, ethnonational corporatism constitutes a framework for contemporary and probably for future (dis)integrative processes, or rather zig-zag movements in the power systems of Western and non-Western societies.
Ključne riječi
power; ethnonationalism; nation-state
Hrčak ID:
127112
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.1994.
Posjeta: 1.890 *