Regionalism, Ethnicity and Left Politics

(1980). Ethnicity and factionalism in Zimbabwe nationalist politics 1957–79. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 17-39.

We are witnessing today a remarkable resurgence of ethnic ties and sentiments in a world of increasingly interdependent power blocks, transnational corporations and computerized information networks. Yet despite growing global pressures, the nation state remains the sole acceptable form of political organization. Regardless of the opposition that the doctrine of nationalism has attracted for over a century, nationalisms of every hue continue to flourish and proliferate as the main inspiration for, and legitimation of, political association.