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Ethnic nationalist actors: prospects for cooperaton between ethnic nationalist homeland states and diaspora

Sorrentino, Rachel J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1057602370

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2003, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
The signature of ethnic nationalist communities is often assumed to be a combination of shared ancestry, culture, and values (for example see Anderson 1991; Gellner 1983; Smith 1986). Although these features reflect a common thread among ethnic nationalist communities, the question of what motivates the activities within these communities is far more complex. In this dissertation, I develop a model to clarify various elements of the complex nature of transnational ethnic nationalist communities. I explore the issue of how identity, homeland/diaspora/and adoptive state relationships, and homeland/diaspora/and adoptive state power affect cooperation between homelands and their diaspora communities. The dependent variable discussed in this thesis is “cooperation” between ethnic nationalist homelands and their diaspora. I gathered data from Lexis-Nexis news stories and coded all appropriate data using the Text Analysis By Augmenting Replacement Instructions (TABARI) coding program; cooperative events were coded according to a modified World Event Interaction Study (WEIS) scale. In addition to measuring “cooperation”, I compiled a data set that includes demographic information for all states and ethnic groups included in the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook (1999). I also gathered information regarding shared ethnic nationalist identity, cultural similarity, and issues that directly relate to homelands, diaspora groups, and adoptive states’ relationships and power. In order to explore homeland/diaspora cooperation from cultural similarity, homeland relationship or power perspective, I collected descriptive data for 42 homeland states that are included in this study. For those homelands that did interact with a diaspora group in 1998, I modeled how cultural similarity, homeland relationships and power prospects affected homeland/diaspora cooperation. I found that homelands were more likely to interact with their diaspora when other international actors, particularly international institutions, targeted their diaspora. Furthermore, I found that cultural similarity, homeland relationships and power do affect homeland/diaspora cooperation, however the impact of variables associated with each of these concepts is dependent on whether one controls for shared identity between homeland and diaspora groups.
Richard Herrmann (Advisor)
188 p.
ethnic nationalist homeland diaspora

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  • Sorrentino, R. J. (2003). Ethnic nationalist actors: prospects for cooperaton between ethnic nationalist homeland states and diaspora [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1057602370

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sorrentino, Rachel. Ethnic nationalist actors: prospects for cooperaton between ethnic nationalist homeland states and diaspora. 2003. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1057602370.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sorrentino, Rachel. "Ethnic nationalist actors: prospects for cooperaton between ethnic nationalist homeland states and diaspora." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1057602370

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