32164 - STATE BUILDING AND NATIONALISM

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

This model is mainly devoted to give an interdisciplinary introduction to the State building process in East Central Europe, Russia/Soviet Union and in the Balkans. Student is expected to make comparisons and have a comprehensive picture of the impact of nationalism, self-determination, and the process of construction/deconstructing State institutions from the crisis of the Great pre-modern Empire to the EU Enlargement Eastwards.

Contenuti

The module will concentrate diachronically and synchronically on the processes that have characterized the development of both nationalism as a key ideological framework in East Central Europe and the Balkans, and the nation/state building since the 19th century. The module is aimed to offer to the students a broad and introductory knowledge of the most relevant aspects that have marked politics and history from the crisis of the modern dynastic empires to the collapse of the communist federations. The mechanisms connected to the implementation of the ideas of self-determination and secession will be analysed in their own theoretical and substantial implications, following either the dynamics between civic and ethnic nation-building process or the conflict between the ideas/projects of inclusiveness via federalism, and the attempts of constructing homogeneous cultural and political groups based on the exclusiveness of the otherness. Therefore, students will acquire an interactive picture of the complexity of changes from nationalism to globalization, by discussing the meaning of the terminology, the main academic and policy-makers interpretations of nation and state, as well as the historical developments of the 19th and 20th century in East-Central Europe, Russia and the Balkans. The main topics that will be at the focus of the classes will be as follows:

* Modernity, theories of Nationalism and federalist projects in Eastern Europe

* Cosmopolitism, nationalism and communism

* The Political Cultures in Eastern Europe

* Self-determination, Secession and Patriotism

* Social Changes between patriarchism and new gender relations

Structure of the lectures

Lesson 1:

Introduction to the subject.Methods of working and studying. The Program of the module.

Nationalism: Primordialists vs. Voluntarists

Herder, Fichte. The poetry and the mission

The volutarist approach to the nation

Lesson 2:

Nationalist mainstream interpretations: Constructivists

Modernity, intellectuals and the constructivists: printing press and language

The nation as an invented tradition: myths and memory

Lesson 3:

Nationalism and Geopolitics: WW1 abd its impact on the Reshaping of nations

Nationalism and self-determination in Wilson and Lenin

Lesson 4:

Nationalism and Bolshevism: forging the Soviet federalism

Soviet federalism and autonomization

Lenin and the indigenization

Communism and the internationalism

Lesson 5:

New geopolitics between the wars. National and supranational perspectives

The Trianon frustration

Irredentism and the revisionism: from Mussolini to Hitler

The alternatives: the Balkan conferences; the Czechoslovak-Polish Union and the Balkan federation projects;

Lesson 6:

Institutional continuity and national identities under communism in East Central Europe

Communism and Patriarchism

The Yugoslav federation

Identities under communism

Lesson 7:

Post-Communism: from internationalism to nationalism

The Balkan cooperation in the 80s

Ethnicity and the State in late communism,

macro-regions,

self-determination and democracy

Lesson 8:

Gender policies, War and Nationalism in the Post-Communist Collapse.

Patriarchism, the body and the war, masculinity and the family roles

The legal adjustments for avoiding war

Lesson 9:

Assessing the access to independence: when a new state is legitimized to exist?

(a Simulation with Badintern commission decisions, the Supreme Court of Canada and the ICJ on Kosovo)

Lesson 10:

Globalisation and nationalism. The New Challenges.

Globalization and egualitarianism; gender policies and new nomadisms; family organizations, religious prescriptions and new forms of intolerance: Post Nation-State reshaping and democracy

Testi/Bibliografia

Main Suggested Readings:

John Hutchinson and Anthony Smyth, Nationalism, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1994

Maurizio Viroli, For Love of Country, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

George Schöpflin, Politics, Illusions, Fallacies (manuscript 2011, to be distributed)

Henry Huttenbach and Francesco Privitera (eds.), Self-Determination. From Versailles to Dayton. Its Historical Legacy, Longo, Ravenna, 1999.

Michael Hefferman, The Meaning of Europe. Geography and Geopolitics, Arnold, London, 1998.

Stefano Bianchini, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Rada Ivekovic and Ranabir Samaddar, Partitions. Reshaping States and Minds, Frank Cass, London, 2004.

George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power, New York Univ. Press, New York, 2000.

Stefano Bianchini, Joseph Marko, Robert Craig Nation, Milica Uvalic, Regional Cooperation, Peace Enforcement and the Role of the Treaties in the Balkans, Longo, Ravenna, 2007.

Jelisaveta Blagojevic, Katerina Kolozova, Svetlana Slapsak (eds,), Gender and Identity. Theories from and/or on Southeastern Europe, Belgrade Women's Studies and Gender Research Center, Belgrade, 2006.

Michael Libal, Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans and in the Caucasus. Some General Considerations, In “Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies”, n. 2, vol. 2, 2002.

Ladislav Holy, The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.

Betty Miller Unterberger, The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia, Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station, 2000.

Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Oxford Univ., Press, New York, 1995

Stefano Bianchini, Craig Nation (eds.), The Yugoslav Conflict and Its Implications for International Relations, Longo Editore, Ravenna, 1998.

Vladimir Kolossov, Ethnic and Political Identities and Territorialities in the Post-Soviet Space, in «GeoJournal», n. 48, 1999, pp. 71-81;

Metta Spencer, Separatism. Democracy and disintegration, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 1998;

John Hoffman, Sovereignty, Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1998;

Krzysztof Michalski (ed.), What hold Europe together?, CEU Press, Budapest, 2006;

Anand Menon and Vincent Wright, From the Nation State to Europe?, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2001;

John O'Loughlin, Vladimir Kolossov e Andrei Tchepalyaga, National Construction, Territorial Separatism and Post-Soviet Geopolitics in the Transdniester Moldovan Republic, in «Post-Soviet Geography and Economics», n. 6, 1998, pp. 332-358

Hugh Poulton, The Balkans. Minorities and States in Conflicts, Minority Rights Publication, London, 1994.

Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press: New York, 1994

Metodi didattici

Teaching methods are basically founded on lectures that include students' short presentations. Students will be therefore invited to deepen different arguments, lecture by lecture, on the basis of specific questions and report by referring to assigned readings, in order to learn how read and interpret them.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Students are expected to make presentation during classes. Instructions will be delivered at the beginning of the course, when a selected reading will be available. Moreover, at the end of the course,students are requested to pass an oral exam based on the suggested bibliography. The ability in presenting arguments and showing a comparative approach will be highly evaluate.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Powerpoint and overhead projector

Link ad altre eventuali informazioni

http://www.mirees.unibo.it; http://www.spfo.unibo.it/Scienze+Politiche+Forli/Facolta/Personale+di+facolta/docenti/default_docenti_bianchini.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Stefano Bianchini