Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State?

[Andropov]

Anyone got any good links to any sources, documents, articles etc that deal with any of those topics?

[Red of Black]

Not really, but here is the link I can make between the three of them: ethnicity is the basis for most nationalism. If ethnicity and nationalism (not patriotism) are genuine and homogeneous among a people, we don't need the State to maintain a cohesive society. If we do need the state to maintain cohesion, then it's not a united people, and trying to represent them with a single State is illegitimate.

Either way the State has no reason to exist, exept for oppression.

PS: this post was just a way to suscribe to the thread. I don't expect nor wish off-topic debate.

[Guerrilla22]

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~satran/PoliSci%2006/Wk%204-2%20Sacred%20Values%20Varshney.pdf

http://www.mepc.org/journal_vol13/0603_Yavuz.pdf

The second one is about Kurdish ethnonationalism in Turkey. If you have any questions feel free to pm me. I'm definitely not an expert in the field, however I took a nationalism and ethnic conflict class with a professor who is considered an expert in the field so I might be able to help.