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State building and nation building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Abstract

This essay discusses, from a historical and contemporary perspective, the processes of state and nation building. The difficulties of making every nation a state and every state a nation, and the fact that people live intermingled within the borders of states and have different and often dual identity leads to arguments for multi-national states, states which abandon the dream of becoming nation states and ‘nations’ willing to live in a multi-national democratic liberal state.

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FOCUS—Nations, States and Human Rights
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1993

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