Ethnonationalist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A proponent of ethnonationalism.

    "As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.

    "Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls “ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units.”"

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ethnonationalistic

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"Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls “ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units.”"

Etymology

From ethno- + nationalist.

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