The aims of this chapter revolve around three arguments. First, in agreement with the contributions this volume consists of, it demonstrates the continu-ing force and reality of the nation form as the only mode of politics world-wide currently. Against arguments seeing the demise of nationalism as integral to the march to globalization, globalism or a cosmopolitan future on the one ha…
Ever since its emergence as a phenomenon, nationalism has been the political process that creates the context for the production of nations. These nations and nationalism then become the backdrop for new elites-desired salient identities galvanized by nationalism.1 This structuring is done either by significantly altering or upgrading the previous identit…