The politics of majority nationalism: Framing peace, stalemates, and crises

In The Politics of Majority Nationalism, Neophytos Loizides addresses the driving force of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates, and peace mediations. The book defines majority nationalism as the ideological schema of dominant majorities in protecting their status and numerical advantage in society and devising strategies to control the state apparatus. The book is divided into two parts, theory and case studies particularly focusing on conflict management in Turkey and Greece by comparing them with their post-communist neighbors, Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine and the post-Ottoman neighborhood. It expands the literature by revealing the approaches of societies in conflict to their ethno-political challenges and peace dilemmas; it also highlights the theoretical preconditions of peace-making. Hence, Loizides tries to create a debate on the connections among institutions, symbols, and framing processes in facilitating or confining the choice of peace by providing a measure of pre-crisis frames, displaying how the choice affects majority groups' crisis behavior, stalemates, and choice of peace.