Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures

Edited by Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

in CEPR Press Books from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This book presents a synthesis of key recent advances in political-economy research on the various approaches and strategies used in the process of building nations throughout modern history. It features chapters written by leading scholars who describe the findings of their quantitative analyses of the risks and benefits of different nation-building policies. The book is comprised of 26 chapters organised into six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of nation building. The first chapter presents a unified framework for assessing nation-building policies, highlights potential challenges that may arise, provides a summary of each of the other chapters, and draws out the main lessons from them. The following chapters delve into the importance of social interactions for national identification, the role of education, propaganda and leadership, external interventions and wars, and the effects of representation and redistribution. The book offers a nuanced understanding of effective nation-building policies.

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Chapters in this book:

America’s melting pot: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Myra Mohnen and Martina Viarengo

Building nations through internal mobility: Evidence from Spanish conscripts

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio, Antoni-Italo De Moragas, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio Gonzalez

Building resilient inter-ethnic peace: Hindus and Muslims in South Asia

Saumitra Jha

Building trust, not bombs: Micro‑foundations of contact theory

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Charismatic leaders and nation-building: The case of Mustafa Kemal ‘Atatürk’

Lydia Assouad

Curriculum and ideology: Evidence from China

Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman

Defining national culture in opposition to a domestic outgroup: Identity in the Russian Empire

Irena Grosfeld and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Diversity, contact and nation building: Evidence from population resettlement in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alexander Rothenberg and Maisy Wong

Education for the masses or the pious? Public and Islamic schools in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy and Benjamin Marx

Education, language and national identity: Evidence from education reform in Catalonia

Irma Clots Figueras and Paolo Masella

Identity formation under occupation and external threats: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine and the annexation of Crimea

Kai Gehring

Language policies in education and the possibility of an identity backlash

Vasiliki Fouka

Leadership and propaganda in nation building: Evidence from Rwanda under Kagame

Arthur Blouin and Sharun Mukand

Lessons from Bismarck’s Germanisation policy

Francesco Cinnirella and Schüler, Ruth M.

Memory and nation building: The dangers of common enemy narratives

Elena Esposito, Tiziano Rotesi, Alessandro Saia and Mathias Thoenig

Nation building through foreign military intervention? Evidence from the Vietnam War

Melissa Dell and Pablo Querubin

Nation building through military aid? Unintended consequences of US interventionism

Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

Nation building: What could possibly go wrong?

Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

New patriots: How Roosevelt’s New Deal made America great again

Bruno Caprettini and Hans-Joachim Voth

One team, one nation: Football, identity and conflict in Africa

Filipe Campante, Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Ruben Durante

Power sharing, conflict and state building

Hannes Mueller, Dominic Rohner and Christopher Rauh

Promoting national integration through national service programmes: Evidence from Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps

Oyebola Okunogbe

State-sponsored education and French identity

Guillaume Blanc and Masahiro Kubo

The influence of heroic networks: French collaboration with the Nazis

Julia Cage, Pauline Grosjean and Saumitra Jha

Unintended cross-border effects of nation-building media

Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

What motivates leaders to invest in nation building?

Paola Giuliano, Bryony Reich and Alessandro Riboni

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