Mobilization in crisis – demobilization in peace: protagonists of competing national movements in border regions

Abstract

Border zones are characteristic for being the site of competing national movements’ struggle on a territory and its population: a population did not only have to awaken to a nationality, but also to the ‘correct’ nationality. Studying national protagonists of competing national movements in border regions therefore promises solid evidence of the reasons underpinning national movements’ success and/or failure to attract the masses.

Keywords

• border regions
• nationalism
• national movements
• territory
• population
• nationality