https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4055?type=CORENationalism and democracy resemble a couple in a stormy marriage. This course offers a tour d'horizon of the literature connecting nations, the state, and societies, under the guiding questions whether democracies can exist without a nation, and whether nationalism hurts democracy and peace. It discusses nationalism both in established democracies and democratizing states, in immigrant societies and in countries that are constituted as multiethnic/multicultural states. We discuss how nationalism and nations relate to the state and political regimes and regime transitions, processes of inclusion and exclusion, institutions of democracy, citizenship rules, and public policies. We will have discussions on the 'politics of identity' in countries both east and west to highlight how democracy can often be conceived based on exclusion ('ethnos') and inclusion ('demos'). We examine majority-minority relations as well as what are the challenges that multiculturalism must face today. Last but not least, we look at the consequences of globalization, Europeanization, populism or technological development for the politics of identity and who has the right to self-determination or what rights different minorities should enjoy.