The pan-movements arose from peoples denied national emancipation and sovereignty

Evidence

JUST AS continental imperialism sprang from the frustrated ambitions of countries which did not get their share in the sudden expansion of the eighties, so tribalism appeared as the nationalism of those peoples who had not participated in national emancipation and had not achieved the sovereignty of a nation-state. Wherever the two frustrations were combined, as in multinational Austria-Hungary and Russia, the pan-movements naturally found their most fertile soil. Moreover, since the Dual Monarchy harbored both Slavic and German irredentist nationalities, Pan-Slavism and Pan-Germanism concentrated from the beginning on its destruction, and Austria-Hungary became the real center of pan-movements. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 579

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

  • XREF: The causal mechanism of frustrated nationalism generating extremism will echo in the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit about the relationship between disenfranchisement and radical identity politics.