Special Issue – Emotion, Authority, and National Character: Historical-Processual Perspectives (Helmut Kuzmics, Dieter Reicher & Jason Hughes)
A renewed significance of the nation state, the rise of nationalist parties and debates about “national identity” shape the current political and societal landscape. The papers written for the new Special Issue „Emotion, Authority, and National Character" suggest focusing on historical long-term processes and on the various relationships between the formation of “survival units” (Elias) like states and the make-up of the personality structure of its members in different nation-states.