POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Primordialism, Anthony Marx, Rogers Brubaker
21 Jan 2016
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States came to dominate world order largely on premise of national self-determination, beginning of 20th century 42 recognized states and by 200, 192 recognized states. Transformation was premised of national self-determination became a constituted national principle in international system: people had right to govern themselves. States: sets of institutions, bureaucracy governments, police, military. People had right to self-governing institutions right to determine national boundaries and decide institutions for them free from foreign rule. Most of conflict today is not a conflict between states, but rather conflict between nations. Most wars today are not interstate wars, internation wars define themselves along national lines. In terms of identity human identity is organized along nationality. Nationalism is primarily a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent . Nationalism is the idea / principle that the community should have a political unit (state) nations should have states. When a nation asserts a demand for statehood.
