Dr Arno van der Zwet research fellow at the European Policies Research Centre has contributed an article an article to the latest issue of nations and nationalism. The article sets out to examine the complexity of national identity and to provide a more nuanced understanding of how inclusive and exclusive characteristics of national identity, which appear theoretically contradictory but show empirically considerable compatibility, relate to each other. The article is part of an ESRC funded fellowship (REF ES/J003468/1).