2) The nation state

Question 1

What defines a state?

Answer 1

Monopoly of legitimate violence.
Territoriality.
Sovereignty.
Plurality.
The people.

Question 2

What defines ‘monopoly of legitimate violence’?

Answer 2

The state is a single center of power, and there are no indivudal use of violence.

Question 3

What defines ‘territoriality’?

Answer 3

Clearly defined borders/territory, and demarcation of the state’s monopoly power.

Question 4

What defines ‘sovereignity’?

Answer 4

States are the ultimate authority, and there is a principle of non-intervention.

Question 5

What defines ‘plurality’?

Answer 5

Borders imply neighbours (a plurality of sovereign states), which is potential threats to the state.

Question 6

What defines ‘the people’?

Answer 6

States rule and consists of people, which make a ruler-people relationship, where the minor rule the major.

Question 7

What is the three phases of state development?

Answer 7

Consolidation of rule.
Rationalization of rule.
Expansion of rule.

Question 8

What defines the first phase of state development?

Answer 8

Consolidation of rule:

• Defining state territories.
• Mostly driven by war and conquest.

Question 9

What defines the second phase of state development?

Answer 9

Rationalization of rule:

• Absolutism.
• Creating political centre.
• Professional bureaucracies, which rase money for war.

Question 10

What defines the third phase of state development?

Answer 10

Expansion of rule:

• States tend to grow.
• Bureaucracies is an inherent tendecy.
• Transition to representative government.

Question 11

What is the difference on a state and a nation?

Answer 11

A state concerns the territory, while the nation concerns the feeling of belonging somewhere.

Question 12

What is the public sphere?

Answer 12

Intermediate level between state and society.

It depends on state-protected institutions.

Question 13

What defines citizenship?

Answer 13

Equal rights and duties.

• Civil rights (equality).
• Political rights (right to vote).
• Social rights (right to unemployment benefits).

Question 14

What defines nationhood?

Answer 14

Imagined community through trust, belonging, pride and solidarity.

Question 15

How does Giddens define globalization?

Answer 15

“Intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by event occuring many miles away”.

Question 16

What are the different components of globalization?

Answer 16

Economic.
Cultural.
Political.

Question 17

Which potential consequences does the globalization has for the nation state?

Answer 17

Sovereignity: trend towards multi-level governance.
National economy: more difficult to tax and to regulate.
Nationhood: nationhood loss importance.

Question 18

What defines weak post-colonial states?

Answer 18

Low capacity and resources.
Ethnically fragmented.
Few constraints for elites.

Question 19

How is the sovereignity in post-colonial states?

Answer 19

Only formal sovereignity, because the state depends on economic aid.

Question 20

What is a factual membership of a state?

Answer 20

Being a member of a state is a function of your residence.

Question 21

What is an ideational membership of a state?

Answer 21

The subjective feeling of belonging to a social group.

Question 22

What defines the civilization of the state?

Answer 22

Differentiation between state and society.
Public sphere and democratic participation.
Citizenship.
Nationhood.

Question 23

What defines the state-society differentation?

Answer 23

States constrained to political activity.