State building and nation building
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Review
- Vol. 1 (4) , 355-369
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700000776
Abstract
This essay discusses, from a historical and contemporary perspective, the processes of state and nation building. The difficulties of making every nation a state and every state a nation, and the fact that people live intermingled within the borders of states and have different and often dual identity leads to arguments for multi-national states, states which abandon the dream of becoming nation states and ‘nations’ willing to live in a multi-national democratic liberal state.Keywords
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