title: Legitimizing the Separatist Cause: Nation-building in the Eurasian<i>de facto</i>States
abstract: Abstract This article compares the nation-building processes in four well-established Eurasian de facto states. Although all four pursue a set of identity politics that would legitimize the separatist cause, comparing them reveals important differences in boundary-making strategies. While maintaining the image of the enemy parent-state and of an imminent external threat is a common endeavor, they face different challenges and thus have pursued different strategies of identity-building. Transnist
journal: Nationalities Papers