Date of Award

5-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Ellis, David

Area of Concentration

Political Science

Abstract

This thesis examines how nationalism and cosmopolitanism have changed as political identities under intensified globalization, treating them not as opposites but as overlapping, variably activated networks of belonging. Drawing on constructivist theory and debates on universalism, it analyzes World Values Survey data from Waves 5–7 (2005–2022) using repeated-measures ANOVAs on indicators such as national pride, willingness to fight for one’s country, national-citizenship identification, immigration attitudes, world-citizen identification, cross-national trust, and confidence in the United Nations. The findings show a dual erosion of both national and world-citizen identifications in the late 2010s and early 2020s, alongside stable or improving pragmatic orientations toward cross-border cooperation and international institutions, and reliability tests indicate that “nationalism” and “cosmopolitanism” function not as single scales but as multidimensional, increasingly heterogeneous constellations of attitudes. The thesis argues that contemporary political belonging is shifting away from thick identity claims toward more selective, issue-specific, and institution-focused attachments across scales

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