Author’s Purpose
Roger Brubaker main purpose in writing his article had a range of purposes, mainly to inform and explain. Brubaker mentions his purpose as attempting to make both substantive and theoretical contributions. What he wanted to contribute substantively lies within post-soviet states and how they attempted nation and state building. Another purpose was to contribute to theoretical work on nationalism. Roger Brubaker set out to reconsider previous work and reformulate the notion of nationalizing states (Brubaker 2011, 1787). To help Brubaker describe the purposes of his article he chooses four post-soviet states to use as the focus of his article. These states were Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan as nationalizing states. Also, to help him convey his purpose he describes of five motifs. These motifs purpose was determined to be characteristics of nationalist discourse in the successor states. The motifs mentioned were, “have a core nation, have ownership or primacy, claims of the core state being weak, state action is needed to strengthen the core nation and the final motif being action needed to redress previous discrimination or oppression in the core state is remedial (Brubaker 2011, 1786)
Central Thesis/Arguments
In Roger Brubaker article the main thesis can be …show more content…
The First argument centered around ethnopolitical demography. He described ethnopolitical demography as being discourses, policies, and processes bearing on the size of the core nation. To help strengthen his arguments he uses the four states mentioned previously and describe how they fall into this category. This argument being centered on the size of a nation makes it important to mention migration, which Roger Brubaker did. Here is uses those four states and how migration has affected them. An example, Ukraine, he says migration is not an issue, or concern because many people don’t choose to move here (Brubaker 2011,
Roger Brubaker main purpose in writing his article had a range of purposes, mainly to inform and explain. Brubaker mentions his purpose as attempting to make both substantive and theoretical contributions. What he wanted to contribute substantively lies within post-soviet states and how they attempted nation and state building. Another purpose was to contribute to theoretical work on nationalism. Roger Brubaker set out to reconsider previous work and reformulate the notion of nationalizing states (Brubaker 2011, 1787). To help Brubaker describe the purposes of his article he chooses four post-soviet states to use as the focus of his article. These states were Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan as nationalizing states. Also, to help him convey his purpose he describes of five motifs. These motifs purpose was determined to be characteristics of nationalist discourse in the successor states. The motifs mentioned were, “have a core nation, have ownership or primacy, claims of the core state being weak, state action is needed to strengthen the core nation and the final motif being action needed to redress previous discrimination or oppression in the core state is remedial (Brubaker 2011, 1786)
Central Thesis/Arguments
In Roger Brubaker article the main thesis can be …show more content…
The First argument centered around ethnopolitical demography. He described ethnopolitical demography as being discourses, policies, and processes bearing on the size of the core nation. To help strengthen his arguments he uses the four states mentioned previously and describe how they fall into this category. This argument being centered on the size of a nation makes it important to mention migration, which Roger Brubaker did. Here is uses those four states and how migration has affected them. An example, Ukraine, he says migration is not an issue, or concern because many people don’t choose to move here (Brubaker 2011,