The Aim and Mission of the Project

The Nationalism Studies is intended to respond to the growing demand of the modern world. The network promotes the combination of social science with history, being an excellent professional foundation for those who study the issues of nationalism.The project encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism with special emphasis on problems created by the new configuration of states, nations and minorities in the various parts of the modern world. Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally interdisciplinary. A wide range of relevant disciplinary expertise including history, social theory, economics, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, international relations and political science will provide with a truly interdisciplinary study of nationalism. The program offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of applied social science. When examining a phenomenon as complex as nationalism, it's impossible to get a real grip on the material without such an approach.
The Nationalism Studies Project was established with the aim of engaging students in an empirical and theoretical study of issues of nationalism, self-determination, problems of state-formation, ethnic conflict, minority protection and the related theme of globalization. The program encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism. Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally interdisciplinary. The project represents a wide range of disciplinary expertise relevant to the study of nationalism including history, social theory, economics, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, international relations and political science. The project offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of applied social science. Additional courses focus on placing problems of nationalism in the context of economic and political transition as well as constitution building in post-1989 Caucasus and the whole post Soviet space, bringing the analyses of the regional countries in a comparative perspective.