6 NATIONS

• Political dimension of nation

  • group of people who regard themselves as a natural political community, classically expressed through the quest for sovereign statehood.
• Psychological dimension of nation

  • group of people distinguished by a shared loyalty or affection in the form of patriotism
• Cultural dimension of nation

  • group of people bound together by common language, religion, history, and traditions
• “Patriotism is a psychological attachment to one’s nation, literally, a love of one’s country” – Heywood
• nationalism - the belief that the nation is the central principle of political organization.
• Nation - is a collection of people bound together by shared values and traditions, a common language, religion, and history, and usually occupying the same geographical area.
• The Two Dimensions of Nationalism

  A) ethnic

  B) imagined

  
• Varieties of Nationalism

  • Liberal Nationalism
  • Conservative Nationalism
  • Expansionist Nationalism
•  Liberal nationalism

  • principled form of nationalism
  • each nation has the right to freedom and self-determination
  • goal: construction of a world of a sovereign nation-states
• Conservative nationalism

  • traditional form of nationalism -> insular, inward-

  looking

  • nation is invented -> defined by political leaders by

  ruling elites

  • nation is an organic entity rooted in a shared past
• Expansionist nationalism

  • antithesis of liberal nationalism
  • arise from a sentiment of intense, hysterical

  nationalist enthusiasm -> sense of exclusivity

  • national is everything, individual is nothing
  • integral nation -> exclusive ethnic community bound

  together by voluntary political allegiance
• Anti-colonial nationalism

  • first strand: liberal in nature -> aspiration of national determination
  • second strand: economic and political in character (Marxist) -> influenced by socialist thought (anti-ruling class)
  • third strand: fundamentalist in nature -> religious in character, Anti-western voice
  • promotes values of community and cooperation
• Nation-state - form of political organization -> autonomous political community bound together by bonds of citizenship and nationality
• Threats to the Nation-state

  • advances in the technology of warfare -> demanded the establishment of IGOs to secure world peace
  • globalized economic life -> world markets, nation-states may have no control over economic destinies
  • weakened national cultures by transnational global culture
• Laissez-faire

  • (in French, literally means “leave to do”) is the principle of non intervention of government in economic affairs.