ABSTRACT
Nationalism has turned out to be one of the most attractive twentieth-century ideologies and one of the main springboards of political, social, and economic changes taking place in the world, especially in less developed areas such as East-Central Europe. Economic nationalism, both a manifestation and a component part of nationalism, played a significant, if rarely noticed by historians, role in the process of national and social integration in the countries of the region. Researchers rarely refer to economic nationalism, and when they do, they usually do it in an indirect way. In major theoretical studies the problem of the relationship between political and economic nationalisms has hardly been touched upon. Frederick Hertz's appraisal was characterized by a peculiar cognitive monocausalism. Michael Heilperin is the noteworthy economist to have dealt with the problem of economic nationalism after 1945. A broader analysis of economic nationalism could be found in the famous report of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA).
