ABSTRACT
Nationalism is the world’s most intriguing and pervasive ideological force in the modern world. In our determination to study it, we have often tended to take for granted ethnicity and nationality. These are the twin matrices out of which nationalism has normally emerged and will continue to do so, in the developing as well as the developed portions of the globe. Nationalist movements have arisen seemingly from nowhere, out of soil which only a few decades ago seemed ethnically barren. Ethnicity and nationality are two indispensable forces which, under favorable social, economic, and psychological conditions, are likely to engender nationalism.
