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This is a particularly difficult question to answer. At first sight it appears that right-wing and populist forms of nationalism have become dominant in many parts of the world, especially among well-established democracies such as the United States, the United Kingdom and India. In addition, the appeal of right-wing nationalism (both conservative and radical) remains strong as recently proved to be the case in the Polish presidential elections and the general election in Spain.

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H-Nationalism’s Question of the Month series offers a forum for discussing the big questions surrounding research, pedagogy, and practice in the field of nationalism studies and the history of nationalism. Use the reply feature to join the conversation! Email Simon Purdue (purdue.s@husky.neu.edu) of Northeastern University if you’d like to propose a question of you own. If you need technical assistance with logging in and posting comments, please contact H-Net’s Help Desk (help@mail.h-net.org).  

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Dear All,

It is getting late in the month and I would be sorry to leave Simon’s fine question unaddressed. It concerns me and my work closely (and here I should declare an interest).

H-Nationalism’s Question of the Month series offers a forum for discussing the big questions surrounding research, pedagogy, and practice in the field of nationalism studies and the history of nationalism. Use the reply feature to join the conversation! Email Simon Purdue (purdue.s@husky.neu.edu) of Northeastern University if you’d like to propose a question of you own. If you need technical assistance with logging in and posting comments, please contact H-Net’s Help Desk (help@mail.h-net.org).  

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Dear Alexander,

If I can summarize the question as follows: "What's new in studies challenging the "heroic national awakening narrative" of 19th-century CEE people", what first comes into my mind are three directions.

One more general: 1) internationalization of study, contributing to a deeper understanding of cultural trends are transnational role models. Locus of this direction is the platform of the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe - ernie.uva.nl, also giving a new kick to comparative studies with tools of Digital Humanities.

Majority Nationalism as a Focus for Research

Dear All,

Thank you for these excellent posts! Dr. Maxwell's has offered his thoughts on this question, and you can find his post
here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/3911/discussions/6166952/question-month-...

We have plenty of more time for more comments. Just reply here once you
have your text drafted.

Best,

Simon Purdue

This post is about current trends in the study of so-called “national awakening” in East-Central Europe. It’s important to specify, perhaps, because the study of nationalism is not just a complicated problem, but a series of unrelated complicated problems going by the same name. Scholars who “work on nationalism” do not always have overlapping interests.