Eight-Nation Alliance

The terms nation, nationality, and nationalism are ideas that are not only strange but ambiguous. They become very hard terms to define within the real world. They are developed through a myriad of differing parts. These can be both tangible and ideological things. Physically people often identify themselves based on where they live or their ancestors are from. National identity gets more complicated than that because people identify religiously, ideologically, politically or have a sense of…

should be. The polarization between the two main parties, Republican and Democrat, has reached a point that is becoming concerning for the near future. According to the Pew Research Center, which conducted a year-long study on the polarization of our nation, “Republicans and Democrats are further apart ideologically than at any point in recent history” (Carroll Doherty). This phenomenon was recently displayed on…

got no good from committing that murder Because the Almighty made him anathema” (Heaney, Seamus 5). The author of Beowulf doubtlessly let his Christian beliefs alter the telling of the legend. In fact, Beowulf has almost fifty references to God, eight to the Almighty, and five to heaven. However, all of the allusions to the Bible are to the Old Testament. Therefore, I conjecture that the knowledge of Christianity may have been more of a knowledge of the Roman church and its…

slavery as that which “undermined both the meaning of consent in the republic, and the very unity post-Revolutionary nationalism sought to enact.” The presence of slavery, as viewed by Furstenberg, is seen as something that is detrimental to the nation as a whole. Although slavery seems to have ample evidence and support in Furstenberg’s work, the musical Hamilton offers minimal evidence of such an issue. In the song, “My Shot,” John Laurens proves to be a very vocal abolitionist: “But we’ll…

travels quickly. Minutes after a major event occurs, hundreds of articles are published in various languages; this shocking speed at which news can now be spread is one of the reasons the world has developed a communal atmosphere. Domestically, nations have created their own community. For example, citizens of a country often feel nationalism for the country they live in or have lived in. Benedict Anderson in his book Imagined Communities explores this idea. The title of the book hints at the…

author of Imagined Communities identifies a nation as an imagined political community that is limited and sovereign, as well. The political community consists of a sect of people who feel as if they are united based on a common ground. The people of a nation feel united and identify themselves as an “us” and people outside of the nation would be considered as a “them”. The limitation in the imagined community is the boarders of the nation, no nation can be considered as infinite. In addition,…

Ethnic Nationalism Source of Communities of Fear Nationalism, according to the most widely accepted definitions of, is the doctrine that the state and the nation should be congruent. However, there is much more to add to the definition of nationalism today in connection to the ethnic and civil society. The definition of nationalism depends on its context. The typology of nationalism defines its strength and/or weakness to its relationship among the community in which it’s defined. While civil…

While the 20th century was a period that saw relatively little interstate conflict in comparison to the past, the void was filled with several kinds of domestic conflicts, especially within colonial territories. It was an era of rapid social and political change that saw the forces of development, modernization, and independence all acting in concert to create insurrectionary movements against government across the globe in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, among others. The…

One way to distinguish a person from the billions of other people in the world is by looking into their ethnicity. Ethnicity may be simplified as just a person’s origin, but arguments have been made that there is more to the world. Joane Nagel, author of “Constructing Ethnicity”, writes about what makes up the word ethnicity along with its uses in social and political spectrums. According to Diffen.com an ethnic group or ethnicity is a population group whose members identify with each other on…

societies capitalize on military revolutions and use them to their advantage. Throughout history, nation states have used RMAs to exploit the advantages of military revolutions derived from the formation of nation states and the French Revolution. The first significant military revolution was the rise of the nation state. In 1648, Europe concluded thirty years of continuous bloodshed over religious alliances . At the conclusion of these conflicts, the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia…