Territorial nationalism

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Territorial nationalism describes a form of

regions (regional nationalism).[1]

Within sovereign

Legal equality is essential for territorial nationalism.[3]

Because citizenship rather than ethnicity is idealized by territorial nationalism, it is argued by Athena S. Leoussi and Anthony D. Smith (in 2001) that the French Revolution was a territorial nationalistic uprising.[4]

Territorial nationalism is also connected to the concepts of

forced expulsion, ethnic cleansing and sometimes even genocide when one nation claims a certain imaginary territory and wants to get rid of other nations living on it. These territorial aspirations are part of the goal of an ethnically pure nation-state.[5] This also sometimes leads to irredentism, since some nationalists demand that the state and nation are incomplete if an entire nation is not included into one single state, and thus aims to include members of its nations from a neighboring country. This thus often leads to ethnic conflict. Thomas Ambrosio argues: "If the leader of state A sends material support and/or actual troops into state B in the hopes of detaching state A's diaspora from state B, this would clearly be an indication of ethno-territorial nationalism".[6]

Territorial nationalism in Europe

In Western Europe national identity tends to be more based on where a person is born than in

Russian culture,[8] even while, at the same time the Soviet Union promoted certain forms of nationalism that it considered compatible with Soviet interests.[10] Yugoslavia was different from the other European Communist states, where Yugoslavism was promoted.[8]

Territorial nationalism in the Middle East

Although territorial nationalism is in contrast with the universality of Islam,[11] especially Egypt and Tunisia had territorial nationalistic policies after gaining independence.[2] This was gradually replaced by Pan-Arabism in the 1950s, but Pan-Arabism declined by the mid-1970s.[11][12]

Territorial nationalism in Africa

In Africa, the prime examples of territorial nationalism are the overlapping

irredentist concepts of Greater Morocco and Greater Mauritania.[13] While Mauritania has since relinquished any claims to territories outside its internationally recognized borders, Morocco continues to occupy lands south of Morocco, referred to as its "Southern Provinces
".

Territorial nationalism in North America

Just as in Western Europe, national identity tends to be more based on where a person is born than ethnicity.[7]

See also

References

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  9. ^ "Nationalism in the Soviet Union", Khiterer, V. (2004) in Encyclopedia of Russian History, Macmillan Reference USA
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  11. ^ a b The emergence of territorial nationalism in the contemporary Arab Middle East Archived 22 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine by Kenneth W. Stein, 1982 Archived 12 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Arab Unity." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 160–166.
  13. ^ "Abstract" (PDF). bundesheer.at. Retrieved 14 September 2019.

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