Nationalism and the Puzzle of Reversing State Size

IF 4.5 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS World Politics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1353/wp.2023.a908773
Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Carl Müller-Crepon
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abstract:Having increased for centuries, territorial state size began to decline toward the end of the nineteenth century and has continued to do so. The authors argue that processes triggered by ethnic nationalism are the main drivers of this development. Their empirical approach relies on time-varying spatial data on state borders and ethnic geography since the nineteenth century. Focusing on deviations from the nation-state ideal, the authors postulate that state internal ethnic fragmentation leads to reduction in state size and that the cross-border presence of dominant ethnic groups makes state expansion more likely. Conducted at the systemic and state levels, the analysis exploits information at the interstate dyadic level to capture specific nationalist processes of border change, such as ethnic secession, unification, and irredentism. The authors find that although nationalism exerts both integrating and disintegrating effects on states' territories, it is the latter impact that has dominated.
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民族主义和扭转国家规模的难题
经过几个世纪的增长,领土国家的规模在19世纪末开始下降,并一直持续下去。作者认为,种族民族主义引发的进程是这一发展的主要驱动力。他们的实证方法依赖于19世纪以来国家边界和民族地理的时变空间数据。关注与民族国家理想的偏差,作者假设国家内部的民族分裂导致国家规模的缩小,而主要民族群体的跨境存在使国家扩张更有可能。该分析在系统和国家层面进行,利用州际二元层面的信息来捕捉边界变化的特定民族主义过程,如民族分离、统一和统一主义。作者发现,虽然民族主义对国家领土既有整合作用,也有瓦解作用,但后者的影响占主导地位。
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期刊介绍: World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published in both print and online versions. Open to contributions by scholars, World Politics invites submission of research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, review articles, and research notes bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics. The journal does not publish articles on current affairs, policy pieces, or narratives of a journalistic nature. Articles submitted for consideration are unsolicited, except for review articles, which are usually commissioned. Published for the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs
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