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1、1Delanty,Gerard,andKrishanKumar.2006."Introduction."Pp.1-4inTheSAGEHandbookofNationsandNationalism,ed.GerardDelantyandKrishanKumar.ThousandOaks,CA:SAGEPublications..Nationalism,oncethoughtbymanyintelle
2、ctualsofbothLeftandRighttobeadecliningordyingforce,hasseeminglyreturnedwithrenewedvigourinrecentdecades.ThemostspectacularexampleshavebeeninthecountriesofEasternandSouth-EasternEurope,inthewakeofthebreak-upoftheSovietUnionandtheendoftheColdWar.Butitscontinuingv
3、italityhasbeenevidentinmanyotherpartsoftheworldaswell.TherehavebeenpowerfulnationalistmovementsintheMiddleEastandinAsia,linkedoftentoneworrevivedreligiouscurrentsinIslam,Judaism,HinduismandBuddhism.NationalistpassionscontinuetobestronginAfrica,leadingtoconstant
4、movementsofsecessionandmoreorlessendemiccivilwarinseveralcountries.EvenintheWest,theoriginalhomelandofnationalismandthepartoftheworldoncethoughttohaveexperienceditssteepestdecline,nationalismhasshownasurprisingcapacityforsurvivalandadaptation,notleastinthesocie
5、tiesthatmakeuptheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.Nationalism,itisclear,isaglobalphenomenon,demandingtreatmentinaglobalperspective.Itishappeningeverywhere;atthesametimeeveryexpressionseemsinsomesensetofeedoffexpressionselsewhere,leadingonetosuspect
6、somecommonsourceorsourcesthatarefuellingthephenomenon.Nationalismmayhavehaditsorigininaparticularplaceandataparticulartime-lateeighteenth-centuryEurope,bygeneralagreement.Butnotonlydiditsideologythenspreadacrosstheworld,carriedasoftenasnotbytheEuropeanempiresof
7、thenineteenthandtwentiethcenturies,theworlditselfhasbecomeincreasinglyunified,sothatglobalstructuresandprocessesnowplaytheirpartinshapingthevarietiesandvicissitudesofnationalism.2Inrecentyears,thestudyofnationalismhasattractedgrowingattentionfromscholarsinarang
8、eofdisciplines-sociology,anthropology,history,politics,evenliteratureandphilosophy.Generalworksbyanumberofscholars-ErnestGellner,BenedictAnderson,EricHobsbawm,AnthonySmith,J
