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The purpose of the essay is to explore in greater detail a key cultural issue in world politics. 

Essay Topic: Nationalism is a distinctly modern phenomenon, the product principally of the nineteenth century. Critically evaluate this statement.
Recommended Reference List

• Barry Buzan and George Lawson, The Global Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). See Chapter 4 in particular. 
• Ikenberry, G. John. “The Plot Against American Foreign Policy: Can the Liberal Order Survive?” Foreign Affairs; New York 96, no. 3 (June 2017): 2–9. Yes 
• Mammone, Andrea. “A Far-Right Revival in Central Europe.” Al Jazeera, January 4, 2018. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/revival-central-europe180103135901606.html. Yes 
• Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Yes 
• Mayall, James. Nationalism and International Society. Cambridge Studies in International Relations 10. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Yes 
• Mounk, Yasha. “How Liberals Can Reclaim Nationalism” The New York Times, March 3, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/liberalsreclaim-nationalism.html. Yes 
• Sluga, Glenda. The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919. Basingstoke [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Yes 
• Tamir, Yael. Liberal Nationalism. Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993. Yes 
• Wight, Martin. Systems of States. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1977. Yes. 
• * Also see articles and books by Ernest Gellner, and Anthony D. Smith. Eric Hobsbaum, and Liah Greenfeld. Also, the journal Nations and Nationalism will have many useful articles.