Nuria Sanchez Madrid (Complutense): Politics of Peoplehood: The Birth of a New Nation? Sinisa Malesevic (UCD): Do National Identities Exist? Mikulas Fabry (Georgia Tech): Unrecognized States and National Identity. Michael S Merry (Amsterdam): Can Patriotism Be Critical? Mac Mckenna (Victoria): Income Inequality and Political Nationalism (“This paper studies how the political elite uses nationalism as a tool for altering the preferences of the voting public”). Enrique Camacho (UNAM): Nationalism and Crisis. Christopher Freiman on the fuzzy borders of “benign nationalism”. What it takes to truly be “one of us”: In U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan, publics say language matters more to national identity than birthplace.
The beautiful game: We think sports teams are a tribal symbol of national identity — but could they offer a vision of an inclusive and harmonious society? Karl M. von der Heyden: “I survived World War II. Nationalism is a path to war”.
