pan-nationalism

Cross-border ethnic solidarity

Pan-nationalism is a political ideology seeking to unite all members of a nation or ethnic group across existing state borders into a single unified entity.

Pan-Slavism sought to unite Slavic peoples; pan-Arabism to unite Arab nations; pan-Germanism drove 19th-century unification efforts.

The prefix pan- (meaning "all") distinguishes these movements from nationalism within existing borders: Pan-African unity remains more aspiration than reality.

ideology

ultranationalism

Extreme supremacist patriotism

Pan-Africanism · Zionism · revanchism · expansionism · ethnocentrism · manifest destiny · reunification · solidarity · transnational · supranationalism

regional

Pan-Slavism

Slavic peoples' unity ideology

African Union · Arab League

historical

Bismarck

Prussia's unifying statesman

Nasser · Gaddafi · Nehru · Marcus Garvey · Habsburg · Yugoslav · partition · interwar period

Opposites
scope of identity

pan-nationalismlocalism

Preference for nearby things

regionalism · parochialism · particularism · tribalism · separatism

basis of political community

pan-nationalismuniversalism

Doctrine of total reconciliation

cosmopolitanism · individualism · internationalism · globalism · humanism

attitude toward state boundaries

pan-nationalismstatism

Doctrine of governmental dominance

state sovereignty · isolationism · non-interventionism · border enforcement

Family

nation, national, nationalist, nationalistic, nationalism, nationalize, nationalization, nationality, nationhood

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