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    The fragmented theories of nationalism and the new concept of defragmentation

    By: Saed Kakei, Ph.D. Student,

    Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism

    Professor Dustin Berna, Ph.D.

    Nova Southeastern University

    Department of Conflict Analysis & Resolution PhD Program

    June 20, 2012

    The fragmented theories of nationalism and the new concept of defragmentation

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    Introduction

    During the last two hundred years that followed the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and ended with the

    fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, two sociopolitical phenomena have profoundly altered the nature of

    human actions like never before in history. Each of these two phenomenacommonly referred to

    as the principles of national self-determination and sovereignty is correspondingly occupying

    one side of a political coin generally known as nationalism with which a human populations claim

    to a territorial ownership is fundamentally valued. Yet, to provide a thorough understanding of

    nationalism and its impacts on our contemporary institutions, this paper begins with descriptivedifferences and the similarities between the doctrines of national self-determination and

    sovereignty on the one hand, and their sequential repelling which formulates the sentimental sense

    of nationalism on the other hand. Then, a comparative analysis of some of the predominant

    definitions of nationalism will be provided to determine why nationalism, politically and

    sentimentally, does not have a comprehensive definition as of yet. The final section of this paper

    argues that the modernist concepts of fragmentation and fusion are amongst the significant causes

    of promoting nationalism. Therefore, a preliminary concept of Defragmentalism based on the

    scientific elements of critical theory will be suggested to solve and reconcile conflicts stemming

    from nationalism.

    The principles of national self-determination and sovereignty

    Before discussing the differences and the similarities between the doctrines of national self-

    determination and sovereignty, there is a need to explain the meaning of the word national as

    part of the self-determination phrase.

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    Just as nationalism has yet to be comprehensively theorized, self-determination, as a

    modern political principle, is still lacking a theory of its own. 1 If any, this can be argued among

    other political reasons, against the vagueness of international law due to its lack of a generally

    competent judiciary, and a powerful executive effect (Janis and Noyes, 2006, p. 1). Also, it has to

    be noted that the key normative feature of many international disputes is the tension between

    peoples right to national self-determination, the norms of territorial integrity indoctrinated by

    rules of sovereignty, and foreign intervention.

    According to the international normative theory, there are generally two kinds of

    international norms. One is designed to foster order and stability in the system, and the other isconcerning justice. As one international law scholar explains, norms are standards of behavior

    defined in terms of rights and obligations (Krasner, 1982, p. 86). These norms of behavior may or

    may not be embodied in hard law or soft law. In some cases, the political understanding of a norm

    is different from the legal principle. For example, while the UN Charter, in Article 1, paragraph 2,

    states that one of the central purposes of the UN is: To develop friendly relations among nations

    based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples (Janis and

    Noyes, 2006, p. 881), it does not clearly specifies however who these peoples are. This

    ambiguity has created two inconsistent interpretations of peoples throughout the academic

    discussions. For instance, while Lea Brilmayer asserts that: Ethnicity primarily identifies the

    people making the disputed territorial claim (Brilmayer, 1991, p. 178), Vita Gudeleviciute (2005)

    finds that present international law does not recognize ethnic and other minorities as separate

    peoples. The latter author adds that in cases where people lack representation by a sovereign state,

    the unrepresented become a separate people.1 Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan at the University of Rochester have recently developed a macro theory of human motivation and personality termed as Self-determination theory (SDT) which has been elaborated andrefined as the theory of motivation which is mostly applicable to clinical and psychology related social sciences.For more information on this subject, please visit the SDT website at: http://www.selfdeterminationtheory.org/

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    Needless to say more on this, Andrew Hurrell (2007) notes that national self-determination

    is a political ideology asserting that the nation can be distinguished from the state, that nations

    and states should be coextensive in their boundaries, that every nation should have a state

    corresponding to it, and that any state that does not express a nation or national idea is potentially

    illegitimate (2007, pp. 125). He goes on to note that: NSD can also be seen as an international

    political norm which confers political and moral rights on national groups or on those speaking in

    their name and which encourages and legitimizes demands for the redrawing of state boundaries

    (2007, pp. 126). It is this essence that motivates mostly involuntary members of a distinct people

    or unrepresented nation to conceptualize their political goal for a legitimate national identity inthe form of an ideological nationalism. This formula or phenomenon is often defined in terms of

    common historical origin, ethnicity, and/or cultural ties.

    To imbalance and ultimately discredit the right of the disenfranchised people to self-

    determination, a second phenomenon plays an equal critical role in the development of

    nationalism. Often referred to as civic-nationalism, this phenomenon is an approach taking by

    previously colonized enfranchised members of a nation-state concerning the unity of their polity

    with which their newly constructed statehood identity is preserved or expanded to exercise

    complete authority over domestic and international affairs (Miscevic, 2010, p.1). In other words,

    they are justifying the violation of their disenfranchised peoples right to self-determination

    according to the UN Charter, Article 2, paragraph 4, stating that: All Members shall refrain in

    their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or

    political independence of any state (Janis and Noyes, 2006, p. 882)

    The territorial integrity or political independence of any state often correlated with the

    international principle of sovereignty of states designed to protect not only the identity of a nation-

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    state, but also to protect the vital economic interests of the colonial powers and their contemporary

    successors. Consequently, nationalism is regarded by the disenfranchised people as a crucial

    sociopolitical sentiment to achieve and sustain a form of self-determination recognized as a

    legitimate national identity. This national identity may include systems such as cultural rights,

    autonomy, federated, confederated or even an absolute secession. On the other hand, there is the

    politically constructed nationalism used by the enfranchised people as a legitimate philosophy to

    strengthen their state sovereignty by suppressing the national identity demands of their

    disenfranchised population. This type of nationalism which it may be termed as quasi-

    nationalism has many commonalities with patriotism and assimilation.Ironically, while the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, and the International

    Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings stipulate that there is no contradiction between the principles of

    national self-determination and territorial sovereignty of states, predominantly western realist

    theorists argue otherwise. For example, Pavkovic with Radan (2007) provide that the realist theory

    of international relations stipulates that territorial sovereignty is more important than national self-

    determination. This theory was translated into a pivotal foreign policy pursued by the major

    powers during the Cold War era. In fact, it has been adopted by the neorealist theorists and

    politicians alike. For example, under the pretext of regional conflict, the United States government

    not only has been coercing the Kurds in Iraq not to secede and declare their long overdue state of

    Kurdistan, but also helping the Turkish government to deny the Kurds their the most basic self-

    determination form to be expressed as recognized cultural rights.

    The least outcome of such a coercive foreign policy is the obvious domestic entrenchments

    of both the disenfranchised and the enfranchised nationalists creating the ideal ground for enduring

    ethnic and well as cultural conflicts. Internationally, however, it will reinforce the realists notion

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    of anarchy in which international solidarity not only is seen as polarized but also fragmented where

    clusters of extreme nationalists do not hesitate to perpetrate terror on the one hand and acts of

    ethnic cleansing and genocide on the other hand. To clarify this point, the existing definitions of

    nationalism need to be deconstructed first to so that their fragmented concepts are underlined for

    the ultimate defragmentation.

    Comparative analysis of theories of nationalism

    Generally, nationalism has three separate interpretations. The first one is known as the

    primordialist perspective that is based on the evolutionary theory. Among the few universalist

    theories of nationalism, the primordialist theorists assume that group identities do exist in all

    societies based on blood, race, language, religion, region, and etc. According to Clifford Geertz

    (1973), while group identities are ineffable, they are also coercive ties resulting from a long

    process of crystallization. In other words, ethnic identity is deeply rooted in the historical

    experience of human beings. Geertz elaborates this primordialist position providing three major

    concepts for his theory. These concepts state that: primordial identities are natural or given; that

    they are ineffable, that is, cannot be explained or analysed by referring to social interaction, but are

    coercive; and, that they essentially deal with sentiments or affections. These Greertzian concepts

    seem to exclude the possibility of sociological analysis which examines the origins, changes and

    dissolutions of ethnic groups, especially in light of the more modern processes of fusion of ethnic

    groups through intermarriage and sociopolitical assimilation.

    According to Josep R. Llobera (1999), most of the issues associated with the primordialist

    interpretations of nationalism disappear if nationalism is understood in a more malleable, less

    biologically-determined, way (Llobera, 1999, p. 4). He furthers that the sociobiological

    methodology begins with the assumption that nationalism is the outcome of the extension of kin

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    selection to a wider sphere of individuals who are defined in terms of putative or common descent

    and that this methodology insists that nationalism combines both rational and irrational elements

    that is a primitive mind with modern techniques (1999, p.7).

    From a primordialist perspective, nationalism is an expression for diverse realities which

    include the assertion of national identity, national pride and a love of country. It can also become a

    xenophobic obsession to attain these realities by use of force, especially when in-group

    ethnocentrism builds up towards the out-group agitations.

    The second interpretation of nationalism to some extent comes from the Instrumentalist

    perspective. Theories belonging to this interpretation are essentially referring to ethnicities rather than nations. However, some of their findings are often broadly encompass both ethnies and

    nations. Unlike the primordialist theories of nationalism which predominantly consider ethnic

    groups as the grand base of nationalism that has a deep history, instrumentalists believe otherwise.

    Although they regard ethnic identity as flexible and variable, instrumentalists assume that ethnicity

    is the result of economic and sociopolitical processes during which an ethnic groups content and

    boundaries change according to the given circumstances. Also, unlike the primordialists who

    consider individuals as extensions of kinship holding the ethnic group together, instrumentalists

    contend this arguing that individuals not only they are not assigned permanently to an ethnic

    group, but they can be members of more than one at the same time. To this effect, Llobera asserts

    that some instrumentalists claim that ethnic membership is simply a ploy to promote economic

    interests, and that individuals are ready to change group membership if that suits their sense of

    security or their economic interests (1999, p.8). It is worth mentioning that some instrumentalist

    authors such as Michael Banton (1983) and Michael Hechter (1988) pay significant attentions to

    the role played by individual inclinations in ethnic affiliation. Both do base their arguments on two

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    assumptions: one is that individuals act to maximize their personal gains and benefits; and, their

    second assumption stipulates that current actions confine future choices.

    The third yet most common interpretation of nationalism is that of the modernist

    perspective which has a variety of typologies each reflecting one or multiple guises. However, for

    all intents and purposes of this paper, only three major types of theories will be covered and they

    include theories stemming from socio-cultural, economics, and socio-political backgrounds. But,

    before going further, it has to be emphasized in general terms that almost all modernist theories of

    nationalism maintain that nationalism has emerged as a consequence for the gradual transition of

    the agrarian social communities into modern societies. Most of these theories, as mentioned here,focus specifically on the expansion of industrialization highlighting conditions or factors such as

    economics, social, political, and cultural functionalities related to it, as the primary cause for the

    progress of nationalism. Other theorists like John Armstrong and Anthony D. Smith contend that

    nationalism was and still is a sentiment held by pre-industrialized nations and that there is

    continuity between the old and the modern nations.

    From the socio-communication perspective, Karl Deutschs pioneering study of

    Nationalism and Social Communication (1953; 1969) emphasizes the centrality of communication

    in the making of national communities. Deutsch explains that the functional definition of

    nationality consists in the ability to communicate effectively, and over a wider range of subjects,

    with members of one large groups more than with outsiders (Deutsch, 1969, p. 97). Deutschs

    view point echoes loudly in Benedict Andersons Imagined Communitie s (2006). Among other

    things, Anderson pays significant attentions to the issue of social communication. He defines the

    nation in its early modern period as an imagined political community and imagined as both

    inherently limited and sovereign (Anderson, 2006, p. 6). His argument about the origins of

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    nationalism led him to focus on the tremendous impact of print capitalism. Anderson asserts that

    "what, in a positive sense, made the new communities imaginable was a half-fortuitous, but

    explosive, interaction between a system of production and productive relations (capitalism), a

    technology of communications (print), and the fatality of human linguistic diversity" (2006, pp. 42-

    3). He concludes his argument saying that the convergence of capitalism and print technology on

    the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined

    community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation (2006, p. 46).

    However, neither Deutsch nor Anderson was able to provide us with a comprehensive

    understanding of nationalism. Although communication is considered as one of the significantfactors of human interactions, it is by no means has anything to do with how the members of a

    community feel about their collective identity.

    From the modernist economic perspective, Michael Hechters Internal Colonialism (1975)

    provides us with his theory of cultural division of labour existing between the core and the

    periphery. Hechter argues that the United Kingdom (UK), as a former colonizer, has developed a

    system of stratification by means of which the dominant group at the core was in a position to

    monopolize social positions, which had high prestige in the society, while the members of the

    peripheral cultures were assigned social roles which were considered inferior (Llobera, 1999, p.

    14). The more industrialization advanced in its uneven way, the deeper differences became more

    emphasized, thereby leading the way for the emergence of ethno-nationalism as an apparent

    response to a situation of dependence and exploitation. Although Hechter has amended his theory

    several times, it was obvious from the start that it was overwhelmed with conspicuous anomalies.

    Anthony D. Smith believes that Hechters theory is still "flawed by its reductionist assumptions

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    that cultural cleavages and ethnic sentiments can be wholly derived from purely economic and

    spatial characteristics" (Smith, 1983, p. XVI).

    At this time, Ernst Gellner theory of nationalism came to light by the 1983 publication of

    his seminal work known as Nations and Nationalism. From the start of the first page of his book,

    Gellner begins defining nationalism as primarily a political principle, which holds that the

    political and the national unit should be congruent (Gellner, 1994, p. 1). From thereon,

    he maintains that nationalism is the inescapable consequence of an industrial society which

    requires a mobile division of labour (1994, p. 34). In such a situation, Gellner tells his readers

    that an individual becomes a nationalist not out of voluntary acceptance of shared values, but because of the structural requirements of modern industrialized societies. Consequently, the

    structural requirements become social conditions enforced through high cultural social relations,

    media and the public discourse, and other administrative requirements. In other words, Gellners

    essential concept insists that nations are and should be invented. As provided earlier, however,

    Anthony D. Smith does not deny the modern character of nations and nationalism, but he remarks

    that "we find in premodern eras, even in the ancient world, striking parallels to the modern idea

    of national identity [...] and we find movements that appear to resemble modern nationalism"

    (Smith, 1986, p. 11).

    Last, but not least, from the modernist socio-political perspective, John Breuilly and

    Anthony Giddens are two prominent authors focusing on role of the modern state in spreading

    nationalism. In his Nationalism and the State (1993), Breuilly defines nationalism as reference to

    political movements seeking or exercising state power and justifying such actions with nationalist

    arguments (Breuilly, 1993, p. 3). However, while he accepts the existence of nations and national

    sentiments in medieval Europe, he denies the existence of nationalism in pre-industrial period.

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    Like the previously discussed modernists here, Breuilly confines nationalism to the modern era and

    considers it as an effect of the modern states progression within the new international system. As

    for Giddens, he defines nationalism in the first of the two volumes of his A Contemporary Critique

    of Historical Materialism (1981; 1985) as "the existence of symbols and beliefs which are either

    propagated by elite groups, or held by many of the members of regional, ethnic, or linguistic

    categories of a population and which imply a community between them" (Giddens, 1981, pp. 190-

    91). From Giddens perspective, nationalism is associated with class domination in which the

    irregular development of capitalism heavily impacts the "origins of oppositional nationalism"

    (1985, p. 220).From the above summary of the modernist theories, it seems that, in general terms,

    nationalism develops in societies associated with the industrialization capable of self-sustaining a

    society with a central authority proficient to maintaining order and unity with a centralized

    language(s) understood by a community of people (Conversi, 2000, p. 102). However, the

    assumption that nations and nationalism emerge because of the irregular development of

    industrialism cannot be established as a general proposition for two reasons. Frist, as Smith (1986)

    asserts, nations precede nationalism. Second, the functional economic interpretations of

    nationalism as claimed by Hechter (1975) and Gellner (1983) cannot be accepted as solid concepts;

    and, therefore, they lack the needed generality for theory of nationalism.

    Defragmenting the fragmented theories of nationalism

    The comparative analysis of definitions of nationalism conducted above indicates a great

    deal of fragmented knowledge about nations and nationalism. Each theorist has put forth a concept

    fitting the guise which he or she is influenced by. The simplifications of the universalist theories

    based on evolutionary perspectives seem to exclude the sociological analysis needed to examine

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    the origins, changes, and dissolutions of ethnic groups, especially in light of modern processes of

    ethnicities fusions through intermarriage and sociopolitical assimilation. The instrumentalist

    interpretations are not adequate to deal with issues related to nations and nationalism. As for the

    modernist interpretations of nationalism, they are mostly socio-communicational generalities,

    narrow economically driven functionalist theories, or broadly sociopolitical concepts trying to

    make sense of nationalism. As a result, one might ask: So, what should we do about them? A

    simple postmodernist answer would be to have them all be deconstructed.

    Well, despite all the positive promises of postmodernism, its deconstruction methodology

    offer no valid answer for the extensive fragmentation of knowledge on nationalism. There existmore than five hundred textbooks and thousands of scholarly constructed texts attempting to

    theorise nationalism, yet, as argued in this paper, none has been recognized as a comprehensive

    theory of nationalism. Paradoxically, within this mess of fragmentation, there are at least two

    forms of misconceptions regarding the nature of nationalism: an awakened beauty on the one hand,

    and a blood-shedding beast on the other. Hypothetically, each one of these misconceptions can be

    viewed as an unstable or Not Responding software application containing multiple files with

    various sizes on a computer system. In such a scenario, the first thing we need to do would be to

    close the application and re-run it later. If the problem persists, we assume that the application

    requires a critical attention. Then, we run a diagnostic application on the computer to figure out the

    problem. Sure enough, if there are no major security issues and system vulnerabilities, our

    computer prompts us to defragment the fragmented drive that hosts virtually all of our files and

    applications.

    Fragmentation can occur when we need to store a very big file to the empty spaces on a

    computer drive. It can also occur when we update an older file with more information that accede

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    the space on the disk which the older file already occupies. Therefore, to process our command as

    expected, the file system within the operating system quickly calculates our new information

    against the available spaces on the disk. During this very fast process; and, if the intended data for

    storing does not accede the overall empty spaces, then the file system breaks our data into smaller

    chunks known as clusters to accommodate our data. The breaking of the data is called

    fragmentation.

    To put this positivist reality into a humanistic perspective, we need to contemplate

    modernism to be similar to that of the file system. As humans, everything we do produces

    information relative to the quality (good or bad) and the quantity (large/small) of any previousinformation. Once validated by respected authorities, the final information becomes knowledge

    available for others to access. This process has been the norm ever since the beginning of the

    enlightenment period.

    As we entered the modern era, the amount of knowledge readily available for our operating

    system, that is to say our brains, to process was astronomical in volume. Undoubtedly, because of

    the very fast paced production of knowledge associated with the industrialization and the rapid

    urbanization of societies, modernism, as our filing system, was and still is overloaded with tasks of

    accommodating knowledge so fast that it left with no options but to fragment any new added

    knowledge, especially with the onset of the twentieth century. This fragmentation not only

    hastened the spread of nationalism all over the world, but also helped the realiststhose with an

    international relations paradigmto argue for proving that violence, ethnocentrism, and

    competition are features of the human natural, thus the need for finding actual responses to these

    realities seriously required.

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    Needless to say more, our modern history witnessed catastrophic devastations of at least

    two major world wars associated with sentiments of nationalism in the twentieth century. More

    recently, intrastate conflicts around the world point to the direction where the instability is closely

    associated with nationalism. This leads us to define nationalism as an aggressive

    offensive/defensive political philosophy that intends to attain and maintain the national interests of

    the politically active nations in both state and non-state formations. Therefore, we have an urgent

    need to resolve the instability caused by nationalism. To do this, we may need to start with

    knowledge defragmentation, that is, the process of rearranging the scattered knowledge on

    nationalism through a harmonious fusion. In the process, clusters of the so-called civic-nationalism should clearly be separated from other juxtaposed variations such as ethnic-

    nationalism, ultra-nationalism, and pan-nationalism simply because of civic-nationalisms

    strong incompatibility issues with nationalism. In fact, similar to religious-nationalism, civic-

    nationalism has more commonalities with patriotism and assimilation than it does with the other

    kinship based forms of nationalism. These anomalies may thoroughly be analyzed in a different

    paper. However, for the purpose of this paper, defragmentation needs to be performed only for

    kinship based nationalism. In other words, nationalism needs to be directly connected to the term

    nation 2 which is bond by norms of kinship, language, and a shared history linked to a particular

    territorial area.

    Conclusion

    This paper has argued that nationalism is the results of two sociopolitical phenomena

    commonly referred to as the principles of national self-determination and sovereignty. As

    2 According to Douglas Harpers online etymology dictionary (2012), the term nation came to English from the OldFrench word nacion , which in turn originated from the Latin term nationem (nom. natio ) meaning a nation, race, or stock.

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    discussed in details, these phenomena are associated with modernism. The comparative analysis of

    the three variable interpretations of nationalism (e.g. the primordialist perspective, the

    instrumentalist perspective, and the modernist perspective) provided that the existing theories of

    nationalism are inconclusive. One possible cause for this inconclusiveness is fragmented

    knowledge on nationalism. Therefore, based on available positivist knowledge, defragmentation

    may be the answer not only to rearrange the scattered knowledge on nationalism through a

    harmonious fusion, but to solve the fragmented kinship base nationalism which it has been proving

    to be a primary source for instability around the world.

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