POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brandt Report, Bandung Conference, Decolonization

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State: an entity that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in a given territory weber 1919, defined by one legitimate ruler. Nation: groups of people with commonalities. An imagined political community anderson 1983. Nationalism: the doctrine that the political state and the cultural units are congruent, equal, and in line with the people of the nation gellner 1983. This is why we have flags and anthems. People can be radical nationalists: nazi is short for nationalist socialist. These ideas are how the global north, canada and much of imperial europe developed. Did imperialism create nationalism: 3rd world countries do not have autonomous identities. They had identities forced upon them: borders were artificially drawn, ethnic groups purposefully divided and elites picked deliberately. Leading up to de-colonization: people began to reject colonial and imperial control based on nationalistic arguments, originally imperialism forced these peoples into the world system.

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