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On Select Pan-Nationalist Movements

Chuanyi MaMoonshot Academy Churan ShiThe Stony Brook School Chen ZengHangzhou Entel Foreign Language School*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Pan-nationalism was considerably focal in the 19th century and early 20th century. On the edge of modern nations' formation and countries' reunification, politicians tried to investigate the margins of their nations. So, Pan-nationalism was developed to unify people with the same identity but had different cultures; most of the Pan-nationalism then translated to expansionism. The essay will discuss three different Pan-nationalism ideologies: Pan-Germanism, Pan-Asianism, and Pan-Arabism/Pan-Islamism. These ideologies were in separate civilization zones; the essay will use the methods of comparative studies, compare the features these ideologies have, and try to find the similarities between these Pan-nationalism ideologies. The essay will also compare the development path of these ideologies in order to find the ingenuity of how these ideologies went to expansionism way or failed. It could be argued that this will benefit nowadays human civilization. Nowadays, both in the West and East, the power of populism and Neo-fascism has grown. As the research on how Pan-nationalism leads to expansionism, humans may find more points to deal with the extreme world.

Keywords: Pan-Asiansim; Pan-Germanism; Pan-Arabism; Pan-Islamism; World War II
Published: June 6, 2025
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2024.23617
Volume: CHR Vol.68
pp. 144-154
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