| Abstrakt: |
This article focuses on the dominance of primordialism in the agenda of international politics. The paradigm of ethnicity or, more politically, ethno-nationalism, does not suggest, of course, that ethnic groups--still less all members of them inevitably fight each other. What it primarily refers to is an ideal in the name of which conflicts have been fought by political elites dependent on collapsing ideologies, eroded state structures, and primordial sentiments. The fundamental idea behind ethno-nationalism is that people share common primordial features and so necessarily have common political interests as well, and thus, ideally, their own state. |
