Historical background of the French nationalism. Prussian conflict, the collapse of the second French empire. Implications of French nationalism on foreign policy course. Definitions of the national identity phenomena. Policy of Napoleon in the far east.
Аннотация к работе
Features of French Nationalism under Napoleon III National ideology plays a major role in the process of foreign policy formation of and the domestic direction of the development of a state. Despite the fact that without a strong social and ethnic cohesion measured by national identity d’etat (French lang. - state) simply cannot exist; the concept of nationalism was ignored for many centuries in the history of the political philosophy (Nationalism, 2010, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Notwithstanding the claim that the phenomenon of nationalism or “sense of identity with nation” is relatively modern, there are multiple varieties of its explanation and classifications. Initially, Classical Nationalism was considered as the self-determination approach of a country seeking for societal sustainability and political stability. This political attitude represents a specific form of the nation-state sovereignty (Nielsen, 1999), where all members of a single ethno-national group have to pursue general goals and