As a result, they demand that other organisations, both internal and external to the state, recognise and accept their authority. Members of the core national group believe that the state is theirs and that the approximate territory of the state is their homeland. The right to self-determination of a core national group within the state (which may include all or only some of its residents) underpins a nation-authority state’s control over a territory and the people who live there.

Rise of Nation State:Ī nation-state is a sovereign government (i.e., a state) ruled in the name of a group of citizens who identify as a nation. A federated state within a larger federation that is only partially self-governing and may or may not be a nation-state (for example, the state boundaries of Bosnia and Herzegovina are drawn along ethnic lines, but those of the United States are not). A confederation is a collection of sovereign nations, which may or may not include nation-states. An empire is a collection of countries and nationalities ruled by a single monarch or ruling state. A city-state that is smaller than a “nation” in the sense of a “large sovereign country,” but is dominated by all or part of a single “nation” in the sense of a shared ethnicity. A multicultural state in which no ethnic group dominates (such a state may also be considered a multicultural state depending on the degree of cultural assimilation of various groups).

Pronlems with nation state