| ID | 136456 |
| Title Proper | Which land is our land |
| Other Title Information | domestic politics and change in the territorial claims of stateless nationalist movements |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mylonas, Harris ; Shelef, Nadav G |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Why do stateless nationalist movements change the area they see as appropriately constituting the nation-state they aspire to establish? This article draws a number of hypotheses from the literature on nationalism and state formation and compares the predictions of each about the timing, direction, and process of change to the empirical record in two stateless national movements in the post-Ottoman space: Fatah and the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. Based on this investigation, the article argues that shifts in the areas stateless nationalist movements seek as their nation-states occur as a byproduct of the politically competitive domestic environment in which these movements are embedded. As nationalist movements engage in the competition for mundane power and survival, their leaders may alter their rhetoric about the extent of the desired national state to meet immediate political challenges that are often only loosely related to territorial issues. If these, initially tactical, rhetorical modulations successfully resolve the short-term challenges that spurred their adoption, they can become institutionalized as comprising the new territorial scope of the desired national state. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Studies Vol.23, No.4; Oct-Dec.2014: p.754-786 |
| Journal Source | Security Studies Vol: 23 No 4 |
| Standard Number | Geopolitics |