Brown Bag Seminerleri: Şener Aktürk (Koç Üniversitesi)

Sabancı Üniversitesi
Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi

BROWN BAG SEMİNERLERİ

European State Formation and Three Models of Nation-Building

Şener Aktürk

(Koç Üniversitesi)

18 Kasım 2015, Çarşamba
12:00  SSBF 2034

Özet:

How do state policies toward ethnic diversity vary across countries? How can one measure and conceptualize cross-national variation in state policies toward ethnic diversity? What explains such variation? This article presents cross-national data on nine state policies toward ethnic diversity in 42 European countries, collected through a global expert survey over four years (2011-2014), which is the empirical core of the current article. Second, it is demonstrated that there is significant cross-national variation in state policies toward ethnic diversity, with three meaningful patterns clustering in particular countries. Three different nation-building patterns are identified and conceptualized as antiethnic, monoethnic, and multiethnic nation-state models. Third, it is argued that three waves of nation-building, roughly corresponding to French (1789), German (1871), and Soviet (1924) nation-building experiences, and the diffusion of these three models across Europe through chronological, geographical, linguistic, and ideological mechanisms, explain the cross-national variation in state policies toward ethnic diversity.

Not: Seminer dili İngilizce'dir.