Nationalism in World Politics

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1 Nationalism in World Politics CREDIT INSTRUCTOR Seo-Hyun Park OFFICE TBA OFFICE HOURS TBA TIME TBA CLASSROOM LOCATION TBA * Please leave the fields blank which haven t been decided yet. [COURSE INFORMATION] This course explores the concept and practice of nationalism, with a particular emphasis on the role that it plays in world politics. We will survey the main concepts and theories in the study of nationalism, identify the major actors and processes in the politics of nationalism, examine the emergence of nationalism as a major force in international relations, and investigate various COURSE DESCRIPTION links between questions of national identity and interstate cooperation or conflict. This is a GOALS writing-intensive course designed to help students think, discuss, and write critically about the role of nationalism in international politics. By engaging in critical debate and a series of writing exercises, students will gain practice in critically assessing opposing theoretical perspectives by evaluating the logic of their arguments and the validity of empirical evidence. PREREQUISITE Introduction to International Relations is recommended. COURSE REQUIREMENTS GRADING POLICY TEXTS S INSTRUCTOR S PROFILE Discussion memo (15%) Book review assignment (10%) Short research papers (20% x 3 = 60%) Class attendance and participation (15%) Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006). Revised/dp/ /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid= sr=8-1keywords=imagined+communities Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Winichakul/dp/ /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid= sr=8-1keywords=siam+mapped * It is recommended that you purchase the above books through online retailers, such as Amazon.com, given that they may not be available at the Yonsei campus bookstore. Additional journal articles listed on syllabus will be made available through a course reading packet. Seo-Hyun Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College. Her research interests include national identity politics, state sovereignty, military alliances, and globalization and security, with a regional focus on East Asia. Her work has appeared in the Review of International Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, and the Chinese Journal of International Politics. Park received her Ph.D

2 from Cornell University and was a research fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. Park was a recipient of the Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Mellon Fellowship, the Cornell University Einaudi Center s Carpenter Fellowship, and has conducted research in Japan and South Korea as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and at Yonsei University. [WEEKLY SCHEDULE] * Your detailed explanation would be very helpful for prospective students to get a pre-approval for credit-transfer from their home university in advance. 1 2 Week 1: What Is Nationalism? Definitions and Approaches Week 2: Modern Development of Nationalism Week 3: Regional Variations: Different Paths to Nationhood Book review assignment Anthony D. Smith, The Origins of Nations, in Geoff Eley and Ronald Suny, eds., Becoming National: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp Ernest Renan, What Is a Nation? in Geoff Eley and Ronald Suny, eds., Becoming National: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, Good and Bad Nationalisms, in Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, eds., Nations and Nationalism: A Reader (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005), pp Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), pp Anderson, Imagined Communities. Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Carter Vaughn Findley, Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010), chapter 4 (only pp ). Robert H. Jackson, Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge University Press,

3 Week 4: Cultural Nationalism 1993), pp Tim Edensor, National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Bloomsbury Academic, 2002), chapters TBA. Michael Edson Robinson, ed., Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, (University of Washington Press, 2014), chapters TBA. Week 5: The Politics of Nationalism Psychological and Small Group Dynamics 3 Week 6: The Politics of Nationalism Institutional Dimensions Week 7: The Politics of Nationalism International Status and Prestige 4 Week 8: Nationalism as a Cause of War Short research paper #1 Roger D. Petersen, Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp Paul Brass, Elite Groups, Symbol Manipulation and Ethnic Identity Among the Muslims of South Asia, in Paul Brass, ed., Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991), pp Meredith Woo- Cumings, ed., The Developmental State (Itha ca: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp John McGarry, Northern Ireland, Civic Nationalism, and the Good Friday Agreement, in John McGarry, ed., Northern Ireland and the Divided World (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp Harris Mylonas, The Politics of Nation- Building (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), chapters TBA. Robert Ross, China s Naval Nationalism, International Security 34, 2 (Fall 2009): Victor D. Cha, Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), pp Barry Posen, Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power, International Security 18, 2 (Fall 1993), pp Alan Cassels, Ideology and International

4 Relations in the Modern World (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp Week 9: Secession and Ethnic Conflict Short research paper #2 Orlando Figes, Is There One Ukraine? Foreign Affairs Special Issue: Crisis in Ukraine, December 16, Marianne Heiberg, Basques, Anti- Basques, and the Moral Community, in Geoff Eley and Ronald Suny, eds., Becoming National, pp Mahmood Mamdani, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (New York: Pantheon Books, 2009), pp Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The 5 Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp Week 10: Anti-foreign Marc Lynch, Anti-Americanisms in the Sentiments and National Arab World, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Identity Robert O. Keohane, eds., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), pp Shogo Suzuki, The Importance of Othering in China s National Identity: Sino- Japanese Relations as a Stage of Identity Conflicts, The Pacific Review 20, 1 (March 2007): Week 11: Everyday Nationalism Short research paper #3 Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995). (also roundtable on Billig s book) Kristin Surak, Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013), chapters Week 12: National Identity in a TBA.

5 New Global Context: Post- Nationalism or New Nationalism? John Meyer et al., World Society and the Nation-State, American Journal of Sociology, 103, 1 (July 1997): Khalil Rinnawi, Instant Nationalism: McArabism, al-jazeera and Transnational Media in the Arab World (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006), chapter 2. Fiona Adamson, Displacement, Diaspora Mobilization, and Transnational Cycles of Political Violence, in John Tirman, ed., Maze of Fear: Security and Migration after September 11 th (New York: New Press, 2004), pp