ETHNIC/CIVIC NATIONALISM DEBATE – SOME BRIEF REFERENCES
I. Some early authors defending the existence of a dichotomy between ethnic and civic
nationalism:
Plamenatz, John, “Two types of Nationalism”, in Eugene Kamenka (ed.) Nationalism: The
nature and evolution of an idea, Canberra: Australian National University Press,
1973, pp. 23 – 36.
Kohn, Hans, The Idea of Nationalism: A Study of Its Origins and Background, First ed.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944.
II. Some more recent articles against the dichotomy:
Brown, David, “Are there good and bad nationalisms?”, Nations and nationalism, 5 (1999)
pp. 281 – 302.
Nieguth, Tim, “Beyond dichotomy: concepts of the nation and the distribution of
membership”, Nations and nationalism, 5 (1999) pp. 155 – 173.
Kuzio, Taras, “The myth of the civic state: a critical survey of Hans Kohn’s framework for
understanding nationalism”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 25 (2002) pp. 20 – 39.
III. A thesis against the dichotomy
Mary Nikolas, Margareta, False Opposites in Nationalism: An Examination of the
Dichotomy of Civic Nationalism and Ethnic Nationalism in Modern Europe, [Thesis]
Centre for European Studies-Monash University, 1999. [Also available on
http://www.nationalismproject.org/articles.html]
IV. Relevant parts from books against the dichotomy:
Kedourie, Elie, Nationalism, Oxford, Blackwell, 1993., pp. 136 – 144.
Smith, Anthony D., The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Oxford, Blackwell, 1986, pp. 129 – 152;