The small number of 25,000 Armenians continuing to live in Karabakh are too small in number to require an autonomous republic. Meanwhile, keeping 2,000 Russian peacekeeping forces in place is a bad policy option as their primary goal will be to keep tensions simmering...
The Ruritanian
The blog of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
The crisis in and over Northern Ireland
In elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2022, Sinn Féin won the largest share of the vote of any party by a wide margin. In terms of seats it was just ahead of the second placed Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This was the first time a nationalist...
Announcing The Ruritanian
Welcome to ASEN's new blog, the Ruritanian! The fictional country of Ruritania, breaking away from the empire of Megalomania, is often used for a placeholder name of a country in which nationalism developed, not least by Ernest Gellner. "Ruritanians had previously...