POLI 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Kosovo Serbs, Slovenian Parliament, Nicolas Sarkozy
18 Apr 2017
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Nation: group of people who believe they are ancestrally related, share customs, norms, and language. Nationalism: identification and loyalty to one"s nation expressed politically to support sense of belongingness. Under feudalism: no nations, no states: instead, complex web of alliances and loyalty. Bitter conflicts over religion led to peace of westphalia. State: legitimate use of force and collection of taxes (sovereignty) within defined borders assigned to a single ruler/government. Nation-state: one nation controls state apparatus; nation that corresponds to a country: a nation does not have to correspond to a country. Scots nation in uk: nation can stretch across two countries. When a nation is not a nation-state, it is an ethnic group. Nation and ethnic groups as sources of identity. Roma = ethnic group with most hapless plight in europe: along with jews, suffered most in holocaust and still discriminated against today, some people wrongly think roma are nomads, france deported more than 10,000 roma in 2009.
