common origin, common power, or common life the changing landscape of nationalisms共同的起源、共同的力量,或民族主义的共同生活景观的变化.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Political Science 2012. Vol.2, No.3, 45-58 Published Online October 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojps) /10.4236/ojps.2012.23006 Common Origin, Common Power, or Common Life: The Changing Landscape of Nationalisms Agnes Katalin Koos Political Science Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Email: agnes_koos@sfu.ca Received June 21st th th , 2012; revised July 11 , 2012; accepted August 11 , 2012 Socio-territorial psychic constructs, such as national identities, are perhaps the most important psychic phenomena for political science, with their strength so consequential for wars and inter-ethnic conflicts. The construction of the EU has faced scholars and practitioners with two identity-related problems: (i) whether the socio-territorial identities can be conceptualized as being multi-layered (nested, hyphenated, with non-conflictual relationships among the components), and (ii) whether the higher levels of these identity constructs can be confined to civic aspects (e.g. to a Habermasian constitutional patriotism), as opposed to traditional nationalisms relying on assumptions of common origin, and shared culture. The most entrenched classification of nationalisms relies on an obvious difference between the kinds of na-