STATE, NATION, AND NATION-STATES

Question 1

what is a state?

Answer 1

• a community permanently occupying a definite portion of territory
• has a respected/obeyed government
• freedom from external control

Question 2

What are the elements of a state?

Answer 2

PEOPLE
TERRITORY
GOVERNMENT
SOVEREIGNTY

key: PTSG

Question 3

describe the element PEOPLE

Answer 3

should be self sufficient and numerous enough to be governed, for defense, and should be enough of both sexes for perpetuity

key: independently numerous and defensive and multipliable

Question 4

describe the element TERRITORY

Answer 4

area with effective control. Big enough to be self sufficient, small enough to be administered and defended

Question 5

describe the element GOVERNMENT

Answer 5

exercises control over and capable of maintaining law within the territory

Question 6

Describe the element sovereignty

Answer 6

supreme and uncontrollable power. Not a state without competence in its own constitutional system, conduct international relations with other states

Question 7

what are the VIEWS on a nation

Answer 7

Cultural
Political
Psychological

Question 8

what is the cultural view of a nation?

Answer 8

• group of people bound together by a common language, religion, history and traditions
• exhibits various levels of cultural heterogeneity

Question 9

What is the political view of a nation?

Answer 9

• political community
• desires to establish or maintain statehood; civic consciousness

Question 10

What is the psychological view of a nation

Answer 10

• distinguished by shared loyalty or affection in the form of patriotism

Question 11

What are the elements of a nation?

Answer 11

Territory
History
Culture
Language
Religion

Question 12

What is liberal nationalism?

Answer 12

• assumption that humankind is naturally divided into a collection of nations, each possessed of a separate entity
• ultimate goal (then) is the construction of a world of sovereign nation-states

Question 13

What is natural self-determination

Answer 13

-oal is the construction of a nation-state - a state within which the boundaries of government coincide as far as possible with those nationality

Question 14

What is a nation state

Answer 14

• country whose population possesses substantial amount of cultural homogeneity and unity
• may be formed by people of same cultural identity (shares territory & eventually form a gov)
• CULTURE + TERRITORY + GOVERNMENT
• most modern countries now nation-states = homogeneous culture and race

homogeneous = of same kind; alike

Question 15

What are the 3 major geo-upheavals

Answer 15

WW1
WW2
Fall of Communism

Question 16

What is the political organization of a nation-state

Answer 16

• when people who share common culture/ethnic identity gain the right to self government, community, and citizenship coincide
• nationalists believe that the forces that have created a world of independent nation-stated are natural and irresistible, and that no other social group could constitute a meaningful community
• ultimately the only viable unit

Question 17

How many nation states are there?

Answer 17

• 195 sovereign nation-states
• vatican and palestine are observer states
• taiwan (south ossetia), kosovo (northern cyprus, sahrawi arab), and abakhazia (democratic republic) are states with PARTIAL RECOGNITION

Question 18

Describe globalization and nation-states

Answer 18

• “global interconnectedness”
• when societies become so intertwined/interconnected that events-decisions in one part of the world significantly effect the lives of people in other parts of the world
• restrictions between states are erased,, easier for ideas, practices, people, and products to cross borders