Nations and Nationalism Journal

Nations and Nationalism is a journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN).

Nationalism is the central issue of the modern world. The demise of the Soviet Union has witnessed revival of ethnic and national identification and, at the same time, the proliferation of nationalist and ethnic conflicts across the world. The consequent explosion of interest in ethnicity, national identity and nationalism has created an urgent need for systematic study in this field. Nations and Nationalism aims to satisfy this need. 

As a scholarly, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal, Nations and Nationalism is designed to respond to the rapid growth of research in the study of nationalism and nationalist movements throughout the world. It is the only journal in the English-speaking world specifically devoted to the study of nations and nationalism in all their manifestations and varieties, both in the past and in the present, and across the globe  

The journal is published quarterly by Wiley and includes original studies, theoretical, empirical, historical, comparative and philosophical, of a range of issues in the field (cultural, political, economic and social), together with debates, viewpoints, review articles and book reviews. Special issues highlight subjects and areas of current interest. The journal covers all areas of the world.

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The editors welcome original research articles from scholars in political science and theory, international relations, sociology, history, geography, anthropology, law, linguistics, area studies, economics, social policy, social psychology, philosophy, cultural and heritage studies, art history and archaeology. Nations and Nationalism operates a rigorous refereeing policy.  Authors are encouraged to read the following guidelines Nations and Nationalism Author Guidelines in full prior to submission. Guidelines can also be found on Wiley Online Library.  

Apart from book reviews, which should be submitted via email to nationsreviews@asen.ac.uk, all submissions to the Journal must be submitted online via the  Research Exchange submission portal: ResearchExchange.  

For further queries, please contact the Managing Editor, Seeta Persaud, at nations@asen.ac.uk

Nations and Nationalism publishes high quality research articles, debates, viewpoints and book reviews that raise new and address old questions concerning all aspects of ethnicity, nationalism and the idea of the nation.

• Theories of nationalism
• History and ethnic identity
• Language, ethnicity and nationalism
• Religion and nationalism
• Class and nationalism
• Race and nationalism
• Gender and nationalism
• Space and nationalism
• Mass media and nationalism
• Art and nationalism
• Imperialism and nationalism
• Ethnic secession and irredentism
• Democracy and multinational states
• Nation-states and international society
• Post-modernity and the nation
• Moral philosophy of nationalism
• International Relations and the nation/nationalism
• Indigenism and nationalism
• National minorities and majorities
• Nationalism and the state 
• National identity

Nations and Nationalism encourages submissions of articles exploring nations and nationalism in all parts of the world, including less studied regions, such as North Africa, South America and the Middle and Far East.

The editors welcome proposal for Themed Sections.  The articles making up a Themed Section must be more than the sum of their parts.  The original proposal should explain how the section breaks new ground (theoretical and/or empirical), how the individual articles cohere as a group and the methods and sources employed. These points should also be made in the introduction to a themed section. That introduction should also include an explicit discussion of concepts if the various contributors differ on their use. A section will not normally contain more than 6 articles.

A proposal should include the rationale for the themed section and the abstracts and author details for all of the articles plus affiliations of the Guest Editors.  We also ask approximately when the articles will be ready for submission (should the Editorial Team wish to go ahead with the Themed Section).  We look forward to receiving full proposals via email to nations@asen.ac.uk.

Recent Themed sections include one on "National Indifference" guest edited by Maarten van Ginderachter,  was published in Issue 29.3 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698129/2023/29/3

 "Nationhood and Mechanisms of Solidarity", Guest Edited by Danny Kaplan published in Issue 31.1 and one on "The Theory and Practice of Non-Territorial Autonomy in Europe: A Historical Perspective", Guest Edited by Marina Germane, Börries Kuzmany & David Smith published in Issue 31.2. The Themed Section on "Nationalism, War and Defeat", Guest Edited by Benedikte Brincker and Rasmus Glenthøj will be published in Issue 31.4 (the October 2025 issue).

Joint Editors-in-Chief

• Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of York, UK
• Jonathan Hearn, University of Edinburgh, UK
• John Hutchinson, London School of Economics, UK
• Eric Kaufmann, University of Buckingham, UK

Managing Editor

• Seeta Persaud, London School of Economics, UK

Editors

• Reem Abou-El-Fadl, SOAS University of London, UK
• Kristin Bashir, Air War College, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
• Bart Bonikowski, New York University, USA
• Daniele Conversi, University of the Basque Country, Spain
• Jon Fox, University of Bristol, UK
• Elliott Green, London School of Economics, UK
• Peter Gries, University of Manchester, UK
• Atsuko Ichijo, Kingston University, UK
• Durukan Imrie-Kuzu, Coventry University, UK
• Athena Leoussi, University of Reading, UK
• Nicola Miller, University College London, UK
• David Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
• Varun Uberoi, Loughborough University, UK
• Gordana Uzelac, London Metropolitan University, UK
• Simona Vittorini, SOAS, UK
• Eric Woods, University of Leeds, UK

Book Review Editor

• Gëzim Krasniqi, University of Edinburgh, UK

Social Media Officer

• David Landon Cole, ASEN

Founding Editors

• Obi Igwara, University of Hull, UK (Founding Editor, dec.)
• Athena Leoussi, University of Reading, UK
• Anthony D. Smith, London School of Economics, UK (Founding Editor, dec.)

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  Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK
• Yeşim Bayar, St. Lawrence University, USA
  
• Catherine Boone, London School of Economics, UK
• John Breuilly, London School of Economics, UK
• Benedikte Brincker, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Rogers Brubaker, UCLA, USA
• Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, USA
• Yuval Feinstein, University of Haifa, Israel
  
• James Gelvin, UCLA, USA
  
• J. Paul Goode, Carleton University, Canada
• Susan-Mary Grant, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
• Steven Grosby, Clemson University, USA
• Natividad Gutierrez, Ciudad University, Mexico
• John Hall, McGill University, Canada
• Aram Hur, Tufts University, USA
  
• Paul James, Western Sydney University, Australia
  
• Erin Jenne, Central European University, Austria
• Bill Kissane, London School of Economics, UK
• Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens, Greece
• Dominika Koter, Colgate University, USA
• David Leal, University of Austin at Texas, USA
• Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Geoffrey Brahm Levey, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  
• Sinisa Malesević, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Vincent Martigny, University of Nice and École Polytechnique, France
• Sabina Mihelj, University of Loughborough, UK
  
• David Miller, University of Oxford, UK
• Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, USA
  
• Steven Mock, Waterloo University, Canada
• Harris Mylonas, George Washington University, USA
• Liliana Riga, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Robert Schertzer, University of Toronto, Canada
• Dan Slater, University of Michigan, USA
  
• Sammy Smooha, University of Haifa, Israel
• Eric Storm, University of Leiden, Netherlands
  
• Anna Triandafyllidou, Ryerson University, Canada
• Peter Van der Veer, Max Planck Institute, Germany
  
• Sofia Vasilopoulou, King’s College, UK
• Matthias vom Hau, IBEI, Spain
• Andrew Wilson, University College London, UK
  
• Andreas Wimmer, Columbia, USA
• Bernard Yack, Brandeis University, USA

The Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship, organised by ASEN and Nations and Nationalism, hosted byLSE IDEAS, provides £5,000 for a one to two month research stay at IDEAS.  It is intended primarily, but not exclusively, for scholars in the early stages of their career, namely doctoral candidates and post-doctoral fellows whose work and research focuses primarily on a topic related to nationalism.  Visiting Fellows will be required to write a Strategic Update on their research topic (up to 5,000 words) and present their research at an ASEN/LSE IDEAS seminar.  For more information about the fellowship please visit: Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship.

Current Fellow:

The 2025-2026 Anthony D. Smith Fellowship, hosted by LSE IDEAS, has been awarded to  Goitom Gebreluel for his research proposal 'The Colonial Origins of Competing Nationalisms in Africa' which explores why some African states have been prone to competing nationalisms while others have not. It formulates a novel theory, which stipulates that colonial administrative instability predicts the degree of competing nationalist claim-making in the post-colonial era. The theory is tested using both quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Past Awards:

The 2024-2025 Fellowship was awarded to Timo Aava for his research proposal, ‘Minorities and the State. Non-Territorial Autonomy in Estonia in the Late Tsarist and Interwar Periods’. Timo is a post-doctoral associate at Yale University.

The 2023-2024 Fellowship was awarded to Jon “Jack” Matlack for his research proposal, “Maneuvering Westward”, concerning training exercises of the US Army and German Army in the Cold War. He is a PhD student at the GSOSES and the University of Regensburg.

The 2022-2023 Fellowship was awarded to Deborshi Chakraborty for his research proposal on ‘a transnational study of Bengali Muslim nationalism in the late colonial period’. Deborshi is a PhD student at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin.