L10. Race and Nation

Question 1

What are the two types of ethnofederal nations

Answer 1

formal plurinational federalism and de facto ethnofederalism

Question 2

What is classified as a ethnofederal core region breakup

Answer 2

• when control is lost in at least half of its federal units for at least a year
• systemic violence which calls for disruption of government

Question 3

Since core regions are seen as threats what do countries do to prevent them from existing?

Answer 3

• Split threat into minority regions (larger amount of federated units provides stability)
• raise the cost of national institutions

Question 4

What is race?

Answer 4

• a social construction
• not biological but rather invented to serve a particular end

Question 5

What is the difference between race and nation?

Answer 5

• both are normative (race bad, nation good)
• national divisions make it easier for global political order
• difference between race and nation are not that great

Question 6

Primordial nation vs. race

Answer 6

• hard to distinguish
• both based on ancestry
• ethnonationalist movements are usually racist
• Principles of sanguinis can be radicalized
• soli often used to incorporate large populations into a nation

Question 7

Jus soli vs. Jus Sanguinis

Answer 7

Jus soli
- birthright citizenship (parents don’t matter)
Jus Sanguinis
- comes from parents
- most countries use this
- recent not until 2000

Question 8

Difference between civic and ethnic nationalism?

Answer 8

civic: doesn’t give a clear distinction of what makes one nation different from the other
ethnic: all about definitions and distinctions