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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisDeciding Britain’s Future: Tom Nairn, Gordon Brown, Marxism and NationalismAn account of the origins and influence of the most important book on British politics for 50 years
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe US must safeguard voting or risk a full-blown constitutional crisisEverybody knows what happened a year ago at the Capitol but we lack an understanding of ongoing threats to our democracy
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHappy is the one who says ‘I am a Turk’: the story of an oathIn Turkey, a row over the traditional classroom pledge of allegiance reveals the extent to which nationalism has...
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Published in: ourEconomyStep aside progressive patriotism – intergalactic humanism has arrivedNationalism will always be racist, no matter how ‘progressive’ it is. What would it mean to imagine a world beyond...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesDid the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?It only took a sub-microscopic pathogen to confirm that, when a crisis strikes, it is the national framework that...
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Published in: ourEconomyNeoliberalism is over – welcome to the era of neo-illiberalismBig tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLong live the People's Palace!Glasgow's beloved museum of ordinary people's lives is threatened with closure. But these are exactly the kind of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNationalism in Jordan: king, tribe, or country? Part oneThe first article in this two-part series traces the formation of nationalism in Jordan as both a pan-Arab identity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May, the end of Empire State Britain and the death of UnionismThe old British state is crumbling.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reflections: antisemitism, anti-imperialism and liberal communitarianismIn the current European context, associations between left-wing movements and the far-right, anti-cosmopolitan...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNatural borders, beware a dangerous ideaWhatever borders follow the ongoing violence and war, they must under no circumstances be ‘natural’.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRe-imagining EnglandOriginally delivered as a public lecture at the University of Winchester on Thursday 9th October, 2014, John Denham...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOur otherness: imagining Balkan and mid-Eastern identities
The original quote by Orwell is “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs UKIP's star fading?As UKIP seeks to instil discipline amongst its cadres, it finds itself walking a thin line between maintaining the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWe promise you an operettaThe development of Egypt's military-brand nationalism over the past year can be traced in a series of formulaic,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe shifting balance of identity politics after the Syrian uprisingAn account of the drastic identity and narrative shifts during the Syrian uprising. The author focuses on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHome Truths: the decline of the Welsh languageThe Welsh language is steadily declining and yet, the amount of Welsh-speaking schools are on the rise. Are the...
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Published in: oDRMessiah or false prophet?For the past month, Moscow has been following the fortunes of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny — trial,...
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Published in: oDRFull steam backwardsRepressive laws, socialist icons, and the promotion of Eurasian identity amount to a regression to the Soviet past,...
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Published in: oDRStavropol — frontline between Russia and the North CaucasusTHE CEELBAS DEBATE// Stavropol is the only one of seven North Caucasus territories with a majority Russian...
