TY - JOUR AB - <strong>Economic Nationalism. Towards a Historically Founded Theoretical Framework</strong><br />This article is meant as a contribution to a historically founded framework for the study of economic nationalism. For an interpretation of economic nationalism the existing literature offers dispersed elements, but no coherent theoretical basis nor a uniform definition.<br />Economic nationalism can follow an outward and an inward way and both ways are mutually dependent. This includes the paradox that economic nationalism can be combined with cross-border, continental or even global integration, especially if this supports the viability of the national autonomy. There is as much interaction between economy and nation: the latter can provide an appropriate functional framework for the first, but this in turn is able to create a single national reference and/or strengthen nationalism.<br />Economic nationalism is essentially nationalism with economic means, nationalism being the starting point of (socio-)economic analysis, target identification and deployment of resources, which serve the nationalist agenda and for which not only a materialistic definition of &lsquo;profit&rsquo; is used. As a consequence of the instrumental nature of economics in relation to nationalism, economic nationalism isn&rsquo;t founded on one exclusive economic theory and is in this respect pluralistic. This doesn&rsquo;t prevent economic nationalism from showing a strong tendency in the name of a unified national identity to conceal socio-economic, ideological and/or other cleavages within its own &lsquo;identity&rsquo;-group. The instrumental nature of economic and non-material definition of profit associated with nationalism can even show an anti-economistic way of thinking.<br />However, the definition of economic nationalism as nationalism with economic means does not exclude societal actors actually using nationalistic arguments in pursuing their economic interests. So there seems to exist a hard, fundamental, as well as a soft, more opportunistic, type of economic nationalism.<br /> AU - Olivier Boehme DA - 2012/3// DO - 10.21825/wt.v71i1.12271 IS - 1 VL - 71 PB - ADVN | archief voor nationale bewegingen PY - 2012 TI - Economisch nationalisme. Naar een historisch gefundeerd theoretisch kader T2 - WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/wt/article/id/79354/ ER -