Nationalism Lecture 5: Nationalist Systems Change

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NationalismLecture 5 Nationalist Systems Change

• Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
• Center for Comparative and International Studies
  (CIS) Seilergraben 49, Room G.2
• lcederman_at_ethz.ch
• http//www.icr.ethz.ch/teaching/nationalism
• Assistant Kimberly Sims, CIS, Room E 3,
  k-sims_at_northwestern.edu

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Three types of change

• Source R. Gilpin War and Change in World
  Politics
• Two types of systems change
• State-formation
• Nation-building

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Otto Hintze

• States are created by war, colonization,
  conquest and peaceful settlement, through
  amalgamation of different parts and through their
  separating from each other and all this is bound
  up with an alternating process of intermingling
  and separation of races and civilizations, and
  languages. The European peoples have only
  gradually developed their nationalities they are
  not a simple product of nature but are themselves
  a product of the creation of states.

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Feudal Europe
Church
Emperor
Kings
Lords and vassals
Peasants
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Feudalism

• Indirect rule
• Private possession of means of violence
• Lack of distinction between private and public
  property
• gt Violation of sovereignty conditions
• internal
• external
• boundary

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Alternative Political Orders
The Italian City-States
City Leagues like the Hansa
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Emergence of the territorial state in early
modern Europe

• Institutional legacy
• Warfare
• Improved communications
• Doctrinal innovations
• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Sovereignty

Thomas Hobbes
Louis XIV
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Early Modern Europe
Diplomacy Warfare
Interstate Relations
Descending sovereignty
States
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The Westphalian Model

• Peace of Westphalia of 1648 after 30 years war
• Territorial state confirmed
• Legal equality
• Non-interference
• Compensation

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Nationalist Systems Change
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The evolution of sovereignty
Source Barkin and Cronin