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- Title
Factors in the formation of nations in the Balkans and among the South Slavs.
- Authors
Paišić, Najdan
- Abstract
If Europe was the cradle of nations in the modern sense of the word, the Balkans were the part of Europe where this process of nation-building progressed more slowly and unevenly than elsewhere, and under the most complex conditions imaginable. It is therefore somewhat of a paradox that the complex historical process of nation-building in the Balkans, which embarked on its final phase only with the Second World War, has not been the subject of broader and more comprehensive scientific research, at least not from the standpoint of contemporary sociology and political science. In recent years, the national phenomenon in its various aspects has captured the interest of research workers and is becoming an area for fruitful application of interdisciplinary approaches and methods of study. This is understandable in view of the place that nations and national relationships between people hold in the development of the present-day word. The modern study of these problems, launched by, among other things, Karl Deutsch's book "Nationalism and Social Communication," has largely been oriented in two directions: to certain cases of nation-building within the fold of multinational States in Europe and in other parts of the world, and to the problems of nations and nationalism among the so-called new States.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; EUROPE; SOCIAL change; STATE formation; NATIONALISM; RATIONALISM
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1971, Vol 23, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article