POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Constitution Of France, Feudalism, Unthinkable
Document Summary
Emergence of french national and its national identity which we discovered has an important impact on understanding the foreign policy & politics of a country. French identity= less complicated than germany, or in russia, due to the fact france is credited by most international observers by inventing the idea of nationalism. Russian territory, and close to defeating the british. Ultimately only triumphed by the dissolution by last multinational empires. Only partial realized goal to nation states, states represent an ethnic linguistic community that is relatively homogenous = in western europe, this ideal was never realized it is (belgium continues to be divided) Not descriptive of the non-european world, ethnic division is extensive but the great power is aimed in that direction, wilson expressed the self determination of nations, inspired by the. French example nation state, the identity of the nation with the state and ability to meet social and military goals by this.
