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Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:530–534 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09921-7 NATIONALISM Glynn Custred Accepted: 19 July 2020 /Published online: 14 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 In the 1980s one could scarcely imagine a political system for the modern world other than the nation state; an entity defined as a sovereign country, geographically limited by internationally recognized territorial boundaries, politically delineated by requirements of citizenship, governed in the West by a democratic representative form of government, and with a population that sees itself as a distinct nation which is recognized as the source of the state’s sovereignty. Historian Benedict Anderson has described the modern nation as an imagined community, imagined as a community since regardless of regional variation and internal inequalities, the nation is always conceived as “adeep horizontal comradeship” capable of generating “colossal sacrifices” on the part of its members. Another feature of the nation state—at least in its prototypical form on which the others are based—is a common language and culture. There are of course many variations on this theme. Some countries give only lip service, or even less, to representative government and the rule of law, and others, such as the former possessions of European powers in Africa
Academic Questions – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 14, 2020
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