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Umut Özkırımlı is a Visiting Professor at IBEI (Barcelona Institut d’Estudis Internacionals) and Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull. He is also a Senior Research Associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). He is the author of Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (3rd edition, 2017) and of the forthcoming Dumb Swedes, Smart Turks? Nationalism, Democracy and the Global Crisis of Trust (with Lars Trägårdh and Henrik Berggren).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronationalism?Even though coronavirus knows no borders, our solidarity often does.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia mon amourIn which the author goes in pursuit of sanity, and is forced to take a stand.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Entering Brexit Britain, with Eric Cantona as my North star – Bill Bryson a trusty guide“I liked Britain in 1995, and I like Britain now – from the looks of it, more than she likes herself.”
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Published in: HomeWhite is the new black: populism and the academic alt-right“It is our duty to expose this moral agenda for what it is, not by 'deplatforming' them – only adding victimisation...
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Published in: HomeFear and loathing in Turkish academia: a tale of appeasement and complicityCan fear explain the loathing that the victims of this ‘academic cleansing’ are exposed to, often by their own...
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Published in: HomeWhy Turkification will never workA country as heteregenous as Turkey can't be held together by an autocrat, so what to do?