Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues at next week's busy ASEN conference in Edinburgh. With the book panels on Eric Storm's 'Nationalism: A World History' and my 'Nationalism as a Way of Life' + a launch of my book by Jonathan Hearn:
asen.ac.uk/conference/s...
The Sociological Review Monograph Vol 74 Issue 2 Paul Jobin, Horng-luen Wang and Olga Kutsenko, guest editors Siniša Malešević Paul Jobin Horng-luen Wang Olga Kutsenko Tetiana Kostiuchenko Diana Janušauskienė Dmytro Mamaiev Kuan-Chia Joshua Lin Chih-Jou Jay Chen Josh Wenger Thung-hong Lin Chun-Yin Lee Shigeto Sonoda Arata Hirai Min Hwan Kim Lan Jin Wen Liu journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/2/
What are the connections between war and society in Eastern Europe and East Asia?
War frames, edited by Paul Jobin, Horng-Iuen Wang & Olga Kutsenko, is the latest Sociological Review Monograph, and offers insight on war, sovereignty and insecurity.
➡️ buff.ly/OFIuCaD @journals.sagepub.com
Delighted to share that the forword by @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social, the introduction and a couple of other contributions of @thesociologicalreview.org Monograph on War Frames are free to access for a limited time
Looking forward to speaking at this summer school in Finland: uefconnect.uef.fi/wp-content/u...
The Sociological Review Monograph Vol 74 Issue 2 Paul Jobin, Horng-luen Wang and Olga Kutsenko, guest editors Siniša Malešević Paul Jobin Horng-luen Wang Olga Kutsenko Tetiana Kostiuchenko Diana Janušauskienė Dmytro Mamaiev Kuan-Chia Joshua Lin Chih-Jou Jay Chen Josh Wenger Thung-hong Lin Chun-Yin Lee Shigeto Sonoda Arata Hirai Min Hwan Kim Lan Jin Wen Liu journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/2/
War frames, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on war and society in Eastern Europe and East Asia.
Edited by Paul Jobin, Horng-Iuen Wang & Olga Kutsenko, its 10 chapters offer insight on sovereignty, imperial influences and insecurity.
➡️ buff.ly/OFIuCaD @journals.sagepub.com
It was a great pleasure to visit Ljubljana and give a talk at the FDV + participate in an excellent symposium on the work of Ales Debeljak.
Jill, here is the link on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrcf...
I am glad to see that this special issue on the war frames in Eastern Europe and East Asia has just been published in the Sociological Review. It was a pleasure to be a part of this comparative project:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/2/
Looking forward to this symposium at the University of Ljubljana + giving another lecture on 24/3:
www.fdv.uni-lj.si/en/study/dep...
![The truth is that in this period [early to mid C19] Ireland was not a small nation: the pre-Famine island boasted a very large and highly dense population that by the 1840s reached 8.5 million people. With this population Ireland was far ahead of Belgium (4 million), the
Netherlands (3 million), Sweden (3 million), Norway, Denmark and
Finland (each less than 1.5 million), Portugal (3.7 million) and many
other European states. At the time Ireland's population size was much
closer to some of Europe's largest states such as Spain (14 million),
England (15.9 million) and Austria (16.7 million) than the other
"small nations". At the same time the populations of Balkan nations were very small, ranging from 1,5 million in Croatia, a million in Bulgaria to 0.8 million in Greece and Serbia each and 0.2 million in Albania.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ipimtycqe4ygljjb5tnw3it/bafkreiaon4sz2trk7nyiwukwa3s2pblawbhrmejaj6pbnk7iyjsfc7vmxu)
The truth is that in this period [early to mid C19] Ireland was not a small nation: the pre-Famine island boasted a very large and highly dense population that by the 1840s reached 8.5 million people. With this population Ireland was far ahead of Belgium (4 million), the Netherlands (3 million), Sweden (3 million), Norway, Denmark and Finland (each less than 1.5 million), Portugal (3.7 million) and many other European states. At the time Ireland's population size was much closer to some of Europe's largest states such as Spain (14 million), England (15.9 million) and Austria (16.7 million) than the other "small nations". At the same time the populations of Balkan nations were very small, ranging from 1,5 million in Croatia, a million in Bulgaria to 0.8 million in Greece and Serbia each and 0.2 million in Albania.
"Why was Irish nationalism steeped in the idea of a 'small nation' while the Balkan nationalisms, which objectively represented smaller and less influential entities, were obsessed with the notion of a 'great nation'?"
Siniša Malešević, "Small is Beautiful," DRB 2016
drb.ie/articles/sma...
It should be available on YouTube soon...
Here is the English version of ARTE documentary on the transformation of violence where Pinker and I offer very different interpretations:
www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
It was a pleasure to give an interview for the German TV ARTE documentary on violence:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
It was a pleasure to give an interview for the German TV ARTE documentary on violence:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Just published:
Do civil wars make or break states? Towards a historical sociology of intra-state conflicts
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Join us in Belgrade in September:
Join us in Belgrade in September:
1 postdoc position on ERC Advanced Grant project IDEO-YEMEN. Focus on Yemen under Ansar Allah (Houthis). The position starts September 1, 2025 and runs for 56 months.
www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=ul2v...
I gave an interview on nationalism to the Iraqi Kurdish Gulan Media:
www.gulanmedia.com/en/story/354...
2 jobs in contemporary war and conflict and international security:
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
My new book "Nationalism as a Way of Life" has been published and I have just received my copies.
Applications for the 2026 ASEN Summer School at the University of Zadar are open now at asen.ac.uk/summerschool along with all the info you need
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If you are a PhD student or early career scholar interested in nationalism join us in Zadar in June:
I gave a long interview on nationalism for N1 TV Sarajevo:
youtu.be/wm_cTmMOR58?...
Applications for the 2026 ASEN Summer School at the University of Zadar are open now at asen.ac.uk/summerschool along with all the info you need
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