Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

1. Frustrated Nationalism in the Twenty-First CenturyGregory MahlerPart I. Nationalism and Some Western Democratic States2. Frustrating Nationalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and Self-Determination David Ryan3. A Secular Turn: The Place of Culture in Quebec’s Self-Conception Raffaele Iacovino4. Nation-Building within a Union State: Scotland’s Frustrated Nationalism Christopher A. WhatleyPart II. Nationalism and Minority Groups5. Contextual Nationhood: The Multiple Dimensions of Nationality in the Mi’kmaw People’s Nation-Building Strategies Simone Poliandri6. Rethinking Mexican Nationalism: Mestizaje, Indigenous Peoples, and Zapatismo Neil Harvey and Dolores Trevizo7. Māori Struggle for Indigenous Rights: Contesting Sovereignty in New Zealand Toon van MeijlPart III. Nationalism and Ethnic Survival8. Virtual Tibet: Representation, Legitimacy, and Struggles for Democracy Åshild Kolås and Tashi Nyima9. Self-Determination and National Liberation in Kurdistan in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Joost Jongerden10. The Biafra Separatist Movement and Resurgence of Igbo Nationalism in Nigeria Bernard Ugochukwu Nwosu and Kenneth Omej11. Beyond a Militia: Notes on the History and Ideology of the Huthi (Ansar Allah) Movement in Yemen Felipe Medina GutiérrezPart IV. Afterword12. Nationalism and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century Gregory MahlerAbout the Contributors Index

"The theme of nations and nationalism is a crucial one in the comparative politics subfield of political science, as well as the fields of world history and historical sociology. This volume brings together specialists who explore a wide range of cases of national identity formation and nationalism, offering rich empirical material and interpretation that provides useful groundwork for comparative analysis. Unlike other work that is more regionally focused or limited to specific historical periods, the cases included here cover a wide historical timespan and geography. The cases are diverse, interesting, historically contextualized, and brought up to the present time with the inclusion of ongoing national conflicts such as the Houthi rebellion in Yemen." — Richard Stahler-Sholk, coeditor of Rethinking Latin American Movements: Radical Action from Below