Nations and national relations 3227-L3NS6E
The subject includes issues concerning concepts of origin of nations (ethno-cultural nation v. political nation). Particular attention is paid to ethno-politics and its components including ethnics (ethno-genesis, bonds of kinship, identity, language, religion, race), organisms and ethno-political processes, and also paradigms of nation and nationalism, including conditions of nationalistic process. The program of the subject includes the following issues: theoretical problems – ethnos, nationality, nation; ethno-politics and its components; ethnics – ethno-genesis, kinship, religion, race, minorities; ethno-political body; poly-ethnic state; ethno-political processes; nationalism as an idea of a nation; paradigms of nation and nationalism; nationalism in chosen countries and regions – Russia, C.I.S., Balkans, Middle-Eastern Europe; process of creating nation and a state – post-Soviet space and Middle-Eastern Europe; ethnics, nations and imperialism at the turn of XIX and XX centuries.; ethnic matter in the USSR; ethno-politics in Russia and Ukraine; Yugoslavia as a poly-ethnic state; ethnic matter in Western Europe; ethnic conflicts of the contemporary world; diasporas, migrations; Poles and Polish emigrants abroad; nations without a state and ethnical separation.