POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nationstates, Anti-Imperialism, Social Identity Theory
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Questions: what are the positive and negative consequences of nationalism in global politics, is globalization leading the ride or decline of nationalism. State: a political society that has a government which exercises authority over a. Territory and population , and that is able to conduct relations with other. State not dependent on having certain kind of identity. Nation: a group of people that sees themselves as belonging together in some meaningful sense as a unit that has identity, and that is distinct from other groups. Which came first: nation or state: primordialism (nation first) A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle renan: peremialism (nation first) Human population that shows: historic territory, common myths, historical memories, mass public culture. !1: common economy, a community of people bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture, a national conciousness seton watson. Monday, september 21, 2015: modernism (state rst)