From Crisis to Nationalism?

摘要: Will nationalism thrive in times of crisis? A broad segment scholarly literature has found that a crisis often leads to the resurgence nationalism. When coronavirus started spread rapidly Europe, individual European nation states unilaterally closed their borders, hoarded critical medical supplies, and played blame games. The early period pandemic revealed some hybrid form nationalism, economic everyday However, common also heightened importance regional solidarity, reinforces strengthening cross-national cooperation multilateral institutions. Based on empirical discussions, this research offers an analytical framework establish hypothetic mechanisms understanding mixed phenomenon. Delving into interaction between article argues causation from one other is not linear, one-way process. There are competing through which both nationalists liberalists can use push for political agenda. Whether there will be new wave neo-nationalism Europe largely contingent responses EU member adopt handling domestic challenges post-pandemic era. Therefore, instead simply exploring causal relation more-nuanced questions examined future concerning conditions under more/less likely provoke neo-nationalism.