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Nation‐building in the wake of empire: identifying patterns of minority policies in the aftermath of soviet collapse Amasyalı, Emre Tarasov, Andrei Ethnic minorities Nationalising state Nation-building Post-Soviet countries Typology Data de publicació electrònica: 31-07-2025 The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation-building strategies in post-Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation-Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically relevant minority groups. Employing cluster analysis, it identifies three typologies of nation-building policies: low, moderate and high inclusion. These typologies reveal varying levels of minority inclusion in language education, citizenship policies and constitutional measures. By examining short-term variations and using the year 2020 as a reference point, this study challenges the simplified view of post-Soviet nation-building as uniformly ‘nationalising’ and highlights significant regional and group-specific differences. Policy shifts reflect dynamic state-minority interactions influenced by geographic, cultural and political factors. The findings enhance understanding of diverse nation-building approaches and provide broader insights into contemporary minority relations in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, contributing to comparative studies of nation- and state-building. This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under Grant agreement No. 864333 (ETHNICGOODS). 2025-09-11T13:37:39Z 2025-09-11T13:37:39Z 2025-09-11T13:37:39Z 2025-09-09T11:52:52Z 2025-09-09T11:52:52Z 2025 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71178 Nations and Nationalism. 2025 Jul 31 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/864333 © 2025 The Author(s). Nations and Nationalism published by Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Wiley