Nation State

Question 1

Definitions of nation and state

Answer 1

•Nation:
• Large groups of people claiming common bonds like Descent (ethnicity). language, religion, culture and historical identity.
• A kind of imagined community’ members of which rise above their group identities, such as religion, ethnicity, language, etc to develop a super identity- the national identity.
People who feel sharing common culture, way of life, worldview, historical past and future aspirations.
State:
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State is defined as highest political institution having sovereignty over a fixed territory.
In all matters concerning that territory and people living within the territory, state has full control and final say.
State has legitimate monopoly of use of force and violence in its territory.
Population residing within that territory offer political obligation to the state.
State has government and other institutions, such as Army, Court, Legislature, to maintain peace & order.
States are recognized by other states as sovereign and equal, and it forms international state system together with other states.

Question 2

What is nation state

Answer 2

• Nation-state:
• When a nation has its own state, it is called Nation-State.
• In another word, a state which is composed of people belonging to one nation.
• A situation in which territories of nation and state coincide, that is, become one and the same.
• Default political institution governing territorial divisions of earth.

Question 3

Nationbuilding and state building

Answer 3

Nation-building:
• Consciously building a common sense of nationhood, sense of belongingness to a larger community - imagined community- the ‘we’ feeling, the feeling of other as
‘us’, having shared interest, shared identity.
• Essentially a cultural process.
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State-building:
building Institutions, systems and state capacity to enable state maintain order, provide security, dispense justice, and provide basic welfare needs to people within its territory and behave responsibly as member of international community
• Essentially a political, technocratic, and bureaucratic process.

Question 4

Who said state represents the political community having a monopoly of the legitimate use of force and violence within a given territory

Answer 4

Weber

Question 5

Who defined nation as imagined community. Instead of being really is perception of being part of same community based on some common binding factor.

Answer 5

Benedict Anderson