This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of what some of the most important political thinkers of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries (before the emergence of what is called 'contemporary political theory' since the 1970s) thought and wrote about the phenomena and concepts referred to as ‘nationalism', ‘patriotism’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’. Thinkers focused upon include J. G. Fichte, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, John [Lord] Acton, Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ernest Renan, Francis Lieber, Alexander Crummel, Karl Marx, Franz Fanon, W. E. B. Du Bois, Otto Bauer, Rabindranath Tagore, José Vasconcelos, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, John Plamenatz, Isaiah Berlin and others. The emphasis of the module is not on ‘nationalist’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ thinkers as such, but on what political thinkers thought and wrote about the nation, patriotism, nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism from the Napoleonic wars to the Cold War.