La Bretagne, une illusio qui fonctionne by Laurent Le Gall

“…The construction of an identity market is contingent on the convergence of highly disparate enterprises whose (sometimes implicit) aim is to mobilise around a number of schemas that emerged from the ‘identity kit’ that contributed to the nationalisation of populations from the 19th century onwards. …”
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FLESHING OUT THE PROVISIONS FOR PROTECTING FOREIGN INVESTMENT by Mohammad Belayet Hossain

“…It will explore: (a) how the decisions of international courts and tribunals have ‘fleshed out’ the principles of the law of foreign investment on, inter alia, the definition of expropriation and nationalisation and determination of the quantum of compensation; (b) how the frontiers of expropriation have been extended to cover regulatory takings…”
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How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…The bitter struggles for oil nationalisation through the twentieth century bear witness to the sensitivity of this question. …”

«Los apóstoles de la patria» by Alejandro Quiroga Fernández de Soto

“…From studying how these institutions functioned, it can be inferred that the efforts of the Primo Rivera regime achieved the opposite of what they intended, producing a «negative nationalisation», in which growing popular opposition to the agents of the State who were spreading the official idea of the nation ran parallel to a rejection of the idea of Spain being defended by these agents.…”
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Chiesa, cattolicesimo e nazionalismo negli anni tra le due guerre. Introduzione by Alfonso Botti

“…Beginning with some references to XIX century processes of Catholicism nationalisation, to the construction of the cultural concept of “Catholic nation” and to the relationship between the Church and new nationalisms from the end of the XIX century to WWI, this article examines the encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei (1922), questioning its efficacy as deterrent against nationalism. …”
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Language and Identity in Ukraine: Was it Really Nation-Building? by Abel Polese

“…Like other former socialist republics, Ukraine has started its nation-building project trying to balance between a limitation of centrifugal forces and the ‘nationalisation’ (Brubaker 1994) of the state. This article examines the main features of language policies within the Ukrainian nation-building project and adopts a dual approach. …”
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Oil subsidies in Mexico by Segal, P

“…Mexico was at the leading edge of the wave, in 1938 becoming one of the first countries in the world to nationalise its oil industry. While the 1917 constitution had already declared that subsoil resources belonged to the nation, this proposition was never fully accepted by the international oil companies that extracted the oil: nationalisation was the result of their refusal to respect domestic laws and institutions, and the corollary of this difficult experience was the constitutional amendment of 1960 that banned concessions. …”

The new governance of Venezuelan oil by Mommer, B

“…With Apertura Petrolera the Venezuelan oil sector, nationalised in 1976, has been re-opened to private investors. …”

A century of codification of the cooperative law in Poland by Krzysztof Pietrzykowski

“…Further changes, which increased this subordination to an even greater ex­tent, were introduced after the Second World War and led to the outright nationalisation of Polish cooperatives. The Act on cooperatives was repealed by the Act of 17 February 1961 on cooperatives and their associations. …”
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Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle : convergences et contrastes by Thierry Rossier, Marion Beetschen, André Mach, Felix Bühlmann

“…A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nationalisation or regionalisation subsequent to the First World War. …”
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Consacrarea constituțională a inegalității în republicile comuniste românești by Cristian BOCANCEA

“…Thus, the 1948 Constitution established for the first time the ‘qualitative’ difference between state property (generating general prosperity) and private property (susceptible to nationalisation); in the 1952 Constitution, the owners of private property came to be labelled exploiters and enemies of the people. …”
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Beyond Nation and Empire? Questioning the Role of Religious Missions under Portuguese Colonial Rule at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Hugo Gonçalves Dores

“…For Portuguese decision-makers, the religious missions, with a multi-century tradition, had an important role in defending territorial claims overseas and promoting the empire’s nationalisation. However, the lack of national missionaries, Christianity’s inter-confessional competition in the nineteenth century and the emergence of international legal rules protecting missionary activities hindered Portugal’s strategies. …”
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Changes in the music scene in Slovenia after 1918 by Jernej Weiss

“…Two important processes took place in the musical sphere: the nationalisation of key Slovene musical institutions (in the sense of a transformation from provincial institutions to national ones) and the Slovenisation of formerly German cultural institutions. …”
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Peter Klepec: from a (Local) Hero to a (National) Allegory of Weakness by Anja Moric

“…It focuses on the historical changes in the perception of Peter Klepec: namely, on his (local) function at the time of the Hapsburg imperial policy, the process of his nationalisation and dilemmas that arose following the division of the Čabranka-Osilnica area, i.e., the originating area of the creation of the legend of the two countries (Croatia and Slovenia). …”
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The permeable and the pervasive: Approaching an understanding of atmospheres of home among Tanzanian Indians by Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen

“…Behind this lurks the anxiety sparked by the nationalisation of Indian houses that took place after Independence: many Tanzanian Indians are still fighting to regain ownership of their houses. …”
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L’Unione Bancaria Europea. Di nuovo un disegno istituzionale incompleto (The European banking union. An incomplete institutional design, again) by Mario Tonveronachi

“…The new institutional framework should help to disconnect banking operations from the vicissitudes of sovereign debts, to reverse the recent re-nationalisation of finance and to restore the effectiveness of ECB monetary policy. …”
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative Security Needs: The Evolution of Chinese Private Security Companies by Arduino, Alessandro

“…Chinese corporations have just started to acknowledge that the risks associated with outbound foreign direct investments carry higher failure rates due to intertwined factors such as economic crisis, conflict, civil unrest, nationalisation, and currency devaluation, to name a few. …”
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Qu'est-ce qu'une épopée "nationale" ? by Maeva Boris

“… Cette étude centrée sur le discours critique vise à interroger les formes de nationalisation dans le commentaire : c’est-à-dire l’ensemble des opérations mises en œuvre par la critique quand elle commente un texte à l’aune d’un espace national. …”
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La fabrique des sports nationaux. A History of the Swiss sporting elite (late 19th-early 20th century) by Grégory Quin, Philippe Vonnard, Gil Mayencourt, Sébastien Cala

“…Based on the collection and analysis of unpublished documentation, especially prosopographical, this project brings to light a double original process to which the space of physical and sports activities is subjected: on the one hand, that of sportivisation, on the other hand, that of nationalisation. In the framework of this contribution, we will present a selection of emblematic cases of presidents of Swiss sports federations, at the time of the Fin-de-Siècle and up to the interwar period, o compare the different traditions existing in the studied sports and to underline the processes leading to the status of “national sports”. …”
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Partidos na República de 1946: velhas teses, novos dados by Jairo Nicolau

“…Dans un second temps, on examine quelques propositions classiques de la période; les partis conservateurs déclinaient tandis que le PTB (Parti Travailliste du Brésil) progressait; les partis se trouvaient dans un processus continu de nationalisation; le système des partis se morcelait de plus en plus.…”
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