Open AccessNationalism and Rationality
Author(s) -
Michael Hechter
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.2000.226
Subject(s) - nationalism , icts , ethnic group , peacekeeping , rationality , refugee , political science , ethnic nationalism , gender studies , sociology , law , information and communications technology , politics
Recent years have witnessed a virtual epidemic of nationalist violence in the world. In 1994, for example, eighteen of the twenty-three wars being fought were based on nationalist or ethnic challenges to states. About three quarters of the worlds refugees were ?eeing from, or were displaced by, ethnic or nationalist con?icts. And eight of the thirteen United Nations peacekeeping operations were designed to separate the protagonists in ethnopolitical con?icts