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Communities, nations and nation states - Coggle Diagram
Communities, nations and nation states
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- Existing states are finding it difficult
to claim that they are a nation:
- Nation is a community that has a
state of its own
- Nationalities are now more likely to
work towards forming a state
- Characteristic feature of modern
era is democracy and nationalism
as dominant sources of political
legitimacy
- Thus, states need nations as much
or even more than nations need
states
- in recent time there has been a
one-to-one bond b/w nation and
state:
- it was not true in the past that a
single state can represent one
nation or that every nation must
have its own state
- Eg: Soviet Union recognised the
people it governed were of
different nations- more than 100
internal nationalities recognised
- People constituting a nation may
be citizens or residents of different
states
- Eg: there are more Jamaicans living
outside Jamaica than in -population of
non-resident Jamaicans exceeds that of
resident Jamaicans
- Nation: community of communities
- Max Weber defines state as “a
body that successfully claims
monopoly of legitimate force in a
particular territory “
- Relationship b/w nation
and community
- there is no hard distinction
between both
- any type of community can form a
nation
- a particular community cannot be
guaranteed to form a nation
- Nation is a community that is easy
to describe but hard to define
- many nations founded on the
basis of cultural, political and
historical institutions
- hard to come up with defining
features that a nation must posses
- Eg: many nations don’t share a
common language or religion +
there are many languages, religions
that are shared across nations and
doesnt form a single nation
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