POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Irish Question, Comparative Advantage
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Nation state= a political unit where the boundaries of state and nation overlap and coincide. A nation state is more integrated and more solidary than a multinational state (where there are multiple nations living within a single state. ) With integration and solidary you get more stable political institutions. The notion is that a multinational state is likely to be too divided to deliver as much as a nation-state. The 19th century is when the national state emerged as an ideal, and nationalism rose. The age of nationalism is very important for late state developers because the process of integration that forms italy and germany has a lot to do with nationalism. Advantages of the nation-state: it would have a kind of comparative advantage in. It would have the kind of domestic political and social capability that would make state self-preservation easier in european inter-state society. There is a common culture, shared cultural identity that characterized the population.