Editorial - Despite repeated assurances from Ethiopia's political and military elite, the country stands at a critical inflection point. Sporadic conflicts in Oromia and the Amhara regions, and the ...

Nation Theory” in a recent speech delivered by the Field Marshal General Syed Asim Munir has reignited debate on the subject. Nearly eight decades after the creation of Pakistan, the nation has yet to ...

Sure, all nations and political communities are one way or another made up, or, in the words of Benedict Anderson, ‘imagined.’ The difference between what moral people should support and what ...

Historical debates- early theories of nationalism and media The classic literature on nationalism, such as works by Hans Kohn, Karl Deutsch, and Benedict Anderson, laid the foundation for ...

Election stress can lead to sleepless nights. Source: Cottonbro Studio / Pexels You turn off your devices. You go to bed at a regular time. You set a comfortable room temperature. You sleep in a ...

To explain the potency of sports affiliation, scholars often cite political scientist Benedict Anderson’s idea of “imagined communities.” Anderson hypothesized that human beings like to feel ...

The cover of Benedict Arnold's Imagined Communities. Due to a combination ... His actual thesis, however, was more subtle. For Anderson, nationalism is imagined rather than imaginary — though ...

Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and, much before him, Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities pointed out that humans have a unique ability to tell stories and ...

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities must be placed within the larger debates on Nationalism that predate Anderson and further follow his footsteps. Broadly, there are two schools of thought ...