Ethnonationalism

Nationalism sometimes is referred as an ethnonationalism. The term ethnonationalism stresses the ethnic dimension, rather then civic, political and cultural features of nationalism.
Ethnonationalism is the highest degree of emotionality and irrationality. The post Cold War era was characterized by the overestimation of the collective identity from the side of concrete ethnic groups. Their uniqueness was emphasized, thus living no chance of existence side by side with other ethnic groups in the boundaries of one and the same nation state; in other cases collective identity is threatened by the external or internal enemies. Ethnonationalism can trigger off “total conflicts”, characterized by the highest level of barbarity. This last statement has some explanations: on an individual level each person is automatically considered to be the warrior, even in the case if he/she is not prone to be. On a collective level rebel group considers itself to be enrolled in a death struggle, where it’s rescuing depends on total extinction of other ethnic group(s). An argument – self rescuing through an ethnic purification contributes to legitimization of nonhuman militarist methods. Generally, the wars waged by the name of ethno nationalism demonstrate the disastrous axiom: humans can not survive and live beyond the borders of ethnie[1].
[1]Ghelabi V.Y. Ethnicity in International Conflicts: Revisiting an Elusive Issue