Reevaluating the ethnic /civic nation(alism) dichotomy: Rights, security and identity in Serbia, 19th and 20th century.
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Title
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Reevaluating the ethnic /civic nation(alism) dichotomy: Rights, security and identity in Serbia, 19th and 20th century.
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Identifier
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AAI3169950
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identifier
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3169950
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Creator
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Manetovic, Edislav.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Howard H. Lentner
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, General | Political Science, International Law and Relations | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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This dissertation challenges the conventional distinction between ethnic and civic nations and nationalism. The distinction is directly related to a given nation's conception of individual rights. Civic nations conceive rights in individualistic terms while in ethnic nations the interests of the collective supersede individual rights. It also questions the related assertion that the two types of nations and nationalism can be explained solely by referring to social or cultural conditions present during nation's formative years.;The dissertation examines the ethnic/civic dichotomy by analyzing the conception of rights in Serbia. I suggest that the historical origin of Serbian nationalism is dual. Contemporary Serbian national identity is also dual and varies in time. Accounting for this duality and variance requires supplementing unit-level explanations with systemic ones. It is suggested that variations in a nation's civicness is related to the influence of uncertainty embedded in the anarchic international system.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
