English

Alternative forms

• ethno-nationalism

Noun

ethnonationalism ‎(plural ethnonationalisms)

1. A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.
   • 1987, Walker Connor, “Ethnonationalism”, in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study, Little, Brown, ISBN 9780316928595, page 196:

     It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds.

   • 1998, William A. Douglass, “A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures”, in Nation and State at International Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521583152, page 73:

     This ultimate concern underscores the elitist, bourgeois and ultimately conservative dimension that is one of the several faces of Catalan ethnonationalism, although in fact throughout its history the movement has a history of 'pacting' across class lines.

   • 2011, Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300177589, page 157:

     Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism.