{"id":2,"date":"2026-02-16T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:57:29","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project explores how the idea of the nation-state has been understood and debated across borders in the Baltic region between 1860 and 1940. Rather than treating the nation-state as a fixed concept, we examine how different thinkers\u2014especially from both large and small nations\u2014imagined it in diverse and sometimes competing ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Combining historical research with political and theoretical analysis, we study how ideas about national size, power, and vulnerability shaped political thinking. Why did some see the nation-state as a path to democracy and cooperation, while others linked it to authoritarianism, rivalry, or expansion?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, we recover alternative visions that connected national belonging with cultural autonomy, federalism, and international cooperation. The project also looks beyond this historical period. By tracing how these debates have been reinterpreted since 1989 and how they resonate in today\u2019s discussions about sovereignty, democracy, and international order, we highlight the continuing relevance of these ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Bringing together perspectives from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, and the surrounding great powers, the project offers a new, transnational understanding of how nation-state ideas developed\u2014and why they still matter today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project explores how the idea of the nation-state has been understood and debated across borders in the Baltic region between 1860 and 1940. Rather than treating the nation-state as a fixed concept, we examine how different thinkers\u2014especially from both &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/thenation-state\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}