Dr John Hutchinson CON3.21

This course is available on the MSc in Comparative Politics, MSc in Conflict Studies and MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Other students may only attend subject to numbers, their own degree regulations and with the permission of the teacher responsible.

Investigations into the relationships between warfare and the formation of national identities, and the implications of this analysis for understanding contemporary politics.

The issues cover three main areas: War and the origins of national identities, including state formation and territorialisation; the construction of collective memories; imperial collapse and national liberation wars; Modern wars: the formation of national societies, including conscription and national citizenship; total wars, class, and the mass nation; genocide; Contemporary wars: trauma and post-nationalism; religio-national wars; new wars debates.

20 hours of seminars in the MT. 4 hours of seminars in the ST.

Students are required to write two 1,500 word essays.

M. Centano, Blood and Debt,1993; R. Collins, Macrohistory, 2000, M. Howard, War in European History,1976; J. Comaroff and P.Stern (eds.) Perspectives on Nationalism and War, 1995; M Juergensmeyer, The New Cold War? 1993;; M Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol 2, 1993; M. Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy, 2005; C Marvin & D Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation, 1998; G Mosse, Fallen Soldiers, 1991; H. Munkler, The New Wars,  2005;  A D Smith, Chosen Peoples, 2003; J. M. Winter and E. Sivan.  (eds.),  War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century, 1999; A. Wimmer, Waves of War, 2012.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.