Conceptualizing of the Phenomena of Nationalism
•Presentation
•Conference „Nationalism and Political Parties in Visegrad Countries“
•IIPS MU, IVF, KAS
•Brno, 18th October 2011
•Foto: M. Mareš ©
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Basic Concepts of Nationalism in the V4
Type
Examples
Traditional and modern nationalism.
ONR vs. Samoobrona in Poland
Historical provincial nationalism and „centre-nationalism“ (Hroch 2008)
Czech nationalism, German Nationalism
State-nationalism and minority-ethnonationalism (specific case irredentist nationalism)
Slovak Nationalism, Roma nationalism
Nationalism and pan-nationalism
Hungarian nationalism, pan-Slavism
Defensive („peaceful“) vs. aggressive Nationalism?
?????(based on self-perceptions)?????

Nationalism and political parties
1. Level: Nationalism in the political culture of country or region
Presence of nationalist beliefs and approaches in the general politics
2. Level: Nationalism in the party system (as a whole)
Nationalism in the politics of all political parties or significant part of party spectrum
3. Nationalism as constitutive element of party family
Extreme right or ethno-nationalist party families Jobbik, some Roma-parties etc.)
4. Nationalism in satellite-organizations of political parties
Various forms of satellite organizations (including nationalist vigilante groups)

New Wave of Contemporary Nationalism (inspired by Egbert Jahn 2008)?
1. Nationalism in the late communist  era
National mobilisation against communist rule and Soviet/Russian domination (Nationalist
anti-Communist opposition in Poland)
2. „Transformational Nationalism“
Nationalist identity against negative impact of political and economic transformation (SPR-RSČ) and
against Versailles-Systém and Jalta-System (SNS)
3. New anti-EU and anti-Globalization Nationalism?
Against European Integration, Against Immigration and Islamisation, construction of „Western White
Identity“ (however mixture of traditional and modern goals – for example Jobbik, D.O.S.T. etc.)
4. New forms of ethno-nationalism (minorities)
Traditional minorities (Roma)
New Diasporas + question of the „Islam nation“

Literature:
Astrid Bötticher – Miroslav Mareš: Extremismus. München: Oldenbourg Verlag 2011 (in print).
Egbert Jahn: The state-transformation in the East Europe. „Second national rebirth“ Nationalism,
national movements, and the formation of nation states in late and post-communist Europe since
1985. In Egbert Jahn (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe. Vol. 1. The Failed
Nationalism of the Multinational and Partial National States. Baden Baden: Nomos 2008, pp. 19-81.
Miroslav Hroch: The historical conditions of „nationalism“ in Central and East European Countries.
In Egbert Jahn (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe. Vol. 1. The Failed Nationalism
of the Multinational and Partial National States. Baden Baden: Nomos 2008, pp. 97-110.
•Thank you for your attention! Questions?