Nationalism and Populism

Expressions of Fear or Political Strategies?

Carsten Schapkow, Frank Jacob, Carsten Schapkow, Frank Jacob

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9783110729740
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

Nationalism was declared dead too early. At the end of the Cold War, the postnational age was announced and liberalism claimed to have been victorious. Simultaneously, a postnational order was proclaimed. Transnational alliances like the European Union were thought to become much more important in international relations. Instead, we witnessed the rise of various forms of strong nationalisms all over the globe during the early twenty-first century and right-wing parties gaining more and more votes in elections often characterized by heavily nationalist agendas.

This volume shows how nationalist dreams and fears determine politics in an age that was supposed to witness a rather peaceful coexistence amongst nations by those who consider transnational ideas more valuable than national demands. The case studies in the book offer explanations of how and why nationalism made its way back to the common consciousness and which elements stimulated the re-establishment of the aggressive nation-state. Continuities of empire, actual or imagined, as well as the role of "foreign-" and "otherness" for nationalist narratives, are key in order to explain how, among other factors, globalization stimulated the rise of twenty-first century nationalisms.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Politics of Fear Revisited
• Section 1: Consequences of Nationalism and Populism
• 3 The Decline of the Occident: A Traditional Narrative of Nationalist Populism
• 4 Populism in Russian Political Discourse
• 5 Populism in the ANC and the 2019 Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
• Section 2: Strategies of Nationalism and Populism
• 6 “We are the streets and we are the law, the 4th Reich is what we are fighting for.” Four Decades of White Power Music in Germany: A Historical-Sociological Reconstruction
• 7 The Germans as a Threat to ‘Us’? The Use of History and Othering of Germans in the Speeches of the Czech President Miloš Zeman
• 8 Dog-Whistle Politics as a Strategy of American Nationalists and Populists: George Soros, the Rothschilds, and Other Conspiracy Theories
• Section 3: Identity Questions in the 21st Century
• 9 Nationalism, Populism, and Norwegian Historiography
• 10 For the Sake of His Country: Henry Luce’s Nationalist-Populist Crusade to Forge “The American Century”
• 11 Catholicism, Polish Victimhood, and Nationalist Histories in Partitioned and Contemporary Poland
• 12 Populist Politics and the Rise of the AfD in Germany
• 13 The Positive Role of Islam in Indian History and Nehru’s The Discovery of India
• 14 Contributors