• Territorial nation
• An entity that is populated by various ethnic groups that have been
assimilated into a nation
NATION STATE
• Relatively modern phenomenon in human history, and
people did not always organize themselves as countries.
• A nation state (or nation-state) is a state where the great
majority shares the same culture and is conscious of it.
The nation state is an ideal in which cultural boundaries
match up with political ones.
STATE, NATION AND COUNTRY
• The word “state” and the word “country” can be used
interchangeably. However, in a political discourse, a state can be
defined as a political unit with sovereignty (legitimate and total
political power) over a region and all the people living in that
region. A nation, on the other hand, does not need to have a
physical border since it is more of a group of people with similar
cultures, language, religions, and other things. A good example of a
nation is Palestine where there are several people identifying as
Palestinians even though, officially, the state of Palestine has
limited recognition.
TREATY OF WESTPHALIA
• System designed to avert wars in the future by recognizing that the
treaty signers exercise complete control over their domestic affairs and
swear not to meddle in each other’s affairs.
• The treaty was widely interpreted as giving states the right to political
self-determination, to be considered equal from a legal point of view and
as prohibiting them from intervening in the affairs of other sovereign
states.
FRENCH REVOLUTION
• Leaded by Napoleon Bonaparte
• Liberty, equality, and fraternity
• Napoleonic code
• Forbade birth privileges, encouraged freedom or religion, and promoted
meritocracy in government service.
• Meritocracy is a leadership selected on the basis of intellectual criteria
CONCERT OF EUROPE