1. Conceptualizing nationalism: an introduction to Walker Connor's work / Daniele Conversi -- 2. Nationalism and political illegitimacy / Walker Connor -- 3. Dating the nation / Anthony D. Smith -- 4. The primordialists / Donald L. Horowitz -- 5. The primordioalist-constructivist debate today: the language-ethnicity link in academic and in everyday-life perspective / Joshua A. Fishman -- 6. Sabino's sin: racism and the founding of Basque nationalism / William A. Douglass -- 7. Ethnonationalism in black and white: scholars and the South African revolution / John Stone -- 8. Sovereignty or separation? Contemporary political discourse in Canada / John Edwards -- 9. Federations and the management of nations: agreements and arguments with Walker Connor and Ernest Gellner / Brendan O'Leary -- 10. Ethnic conflict and third-party mediation: a critical review / William Safran -- 11. Religion and nationalism in the First World / John Coakley -- 12. Homeland making and the territorialization of national identity / Robert J. Kaiser -- 13. Ethnicity and nationality: the twin matrices of nationalism / Thomas Spira -- 14. Resisting primordialism and other-isms: in lieu of conclusions / Daniele Conversi -- 15. Walker Connor: a bibliography, 1967-2001