Globalization of Nationalism? Construction, Transformation and Ambivalence of National Identity Politics

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to examine political identities in the context of nationalism around the globe today. The understanding of contemporary politics implies the understanding of what moves the current players, therefore of identities which are the source of one’s motivations. The panel focuses on construction, transformation and ambivalence of contemporary national identity. The point of departure for the panel is the hypothesis that despite globalization and emerging transnational frameworks – economic, ideological, regional and religious – nationalism remains the basis of political identities and the source of political motivation. What we are witnessing with globalization is not obliteration of national consciousness and identity in the face of emerging transnational ones, but globalization of nationalism in politics, its penetration into new areas of the world and new transnational frameworks of political activity, which were previously independent of nationalism.

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