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Vilka frågor inställer sig för den som vill närma sig fenomenet nationell identitet i ett långt historiskt perspektiv? Kanske en fråga om hur territoriell tillhörighet förstods före nationalstaten? Eller om hur gemenskap och samhörighet skapades och definierades i stadsstater respektive imperier? Hur rimligt är det rådande synsättet inom delar av forskarsamhället att nationalism och nationalkänsla i första hand är 1800-talsfenomen? Kan tvärvetenskapliga utgångspunkter bidra till förståelse av människans relation till gräns och territorium och av hennes behov av gemenskap? Sjutton i huvudsak doktorander i ämnena historia, idé- och lärdomshistoria, litteraturvetenskap och statsvetenskap närmar sig frågekomplexet i föreliggande essäer

Most theorists on international relations agree on recognizing natural resources, economic strength, technological development, political stability, & military strength as the five bases of a state's power. This unanimity is in sharp contrast with the divergences in the operationalizations of the power of states. Most operationalizations use only one or two bases of a state's power & thus are very limited in scope. Therefore, the demand for an operationalization sticking as closely as possible to the unanimity among theorists forces itself on the researcher. An attempt is made to transform the theoretical unanimity into an operational measure. Each power basis represented by partial indicators is listed: (1) natural resources--area, population, production of energy, (2) economic strength--gross national product, energy consumption, monetary stability, (3) technological development--level of alphabetization, number of students in higher education, scientific production & infrastructure, (4) political stability--length of independence, internal stability, & (5) military strength--number of men in the armed forces, conventional weapons, nuclear strength. The operationalization was obtained by granting all five power bases an equal share in the index & by giving an equal weight to the sums of the arithmetical values for fifteen partial indicators & thus, for the five indicators. The nation's power-index, thus obtained, was applied to 110 nation states as they existed at the beginning of the '70s. On this power scale, ratings differ from 29,046 indexpoints of world power (IWM) for the US to 276 IWM for Gambia & even less for a number of the smaller states that could not be investigated. Modified HA.

The nation is often portrayed as a natural political unit, a bearer of common values facilitating democracy & equality. However, the construction & reproduction of nations is also intimately tied to hierarchies & mechanisms of power, not least gender power. This article shows how nation & gender arc construed simultaneously in ideas & symbols, as well as in everyday practices. The article argues that memory work is a possible way to gain insight into the everyday construction of gender & nation, & to develop new theoretical understandings. An overview of central themes of the discussion on gender & nation is presented. Memory work makes explicit the ambivalent processes by which women as acting subjects are denied agency & turned into objects of the nation. References. Adapted from the source document.

Den "Geijerska professuren" / av Torgny Nevéus -- Nationen så in i Norden / av Lars M. Andersson, Urban Claesson, Henrik Edgren & Bo G. Hall -- Bofinken och seminariet : inte bara en lek med ord / av Lars Petterson -- Komparativ metod för det tjugoförsta ärhundrandet / Leos Müller -- Den jubilerande nationen : nationellt och transnationellt i nordisk jubileumskultur / av Torbjörn Eng -- En bild säger mer än tusen ord : den politiska skämtteckningen som källa / av Bo G. Hall -- Nationens historiska karaktär : nationell identitetsformering, klass och föreställda skillnader i revolutionens tidsålder / av Anne Berg -- De obehörigas politik : Sörmländska protester i samband med förstärkningsmanskapet 1811 / av Linda Oja -- "Tvänne af ålder och af naturen till en varaktig förening ämnade folkslag" : G. A. Silverstolpe och Skandinaviens historia / av Johan Sjöberg -- Läraren och sällskapsmänniskan : Erik Gustaf Geijer som social kulturbärare / av Thomas Neidenmark --

Traditionally a distinction has been made between political theory, which concerns itself with relations within a nation-state, and international politics, which focuses on relations between nation-states. Yet these two areas can often overlap. The result is a cross-discipline commonly known as international political theory. This subject area is the focus of a new journal. Adapted from the source document.