National republicanism

National republicanism is a variant of radical republicanism defined by belief in a strong sense of civic nationalism achieved through a 'national restoration', national autarky, and anti-mercantilism. As a movement, national republicanism seeks to promote the interests of a particular nation, diametrically opposed to corporate and monarchical institutions. National republican philosophy first emerged among Amerikaener and Yankee intellectuals during the 19th century, eventually manifesting itself in the American Spring of Nations and the Russian Revolution of the early 20th century.

History

Pre-18th century origins

The nation-state

De iure belli ac pacis, written by Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius in the early 1600s, noted the distinct national societies (nations) which had interacted with each other during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. The Dutch Republic, a state of Grotius' era emerging from Spanish colonialism, can be said to be the first distinguishable nation-state in modern Europe. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648, ending an era of chaos, was the progenitor of the formal concept of territorial sovereignty.

See also

• Political ideology