What makes a Nation-State?

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What makes a Nation-State?

• Nation
• Group of tightly knit people
• Common language
• Common history
• Similar ethnicity
• National Spirit emotional commitment to the
  state and what it stands for

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Nation-State

• A political unit comprising a clearly defined
  territory and inhabited by a large population who
  considers themselves a nation, sufficiently
  organized to possess power, with emotional and
  other ties expressed through legal institutions,
  political systems, and ideological strength.

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Divisive and Unifying Forces

• Centrifugal Forces forces that are disunifying
  or divisive
• Religious, Racial, regional conflicts can be
  centrifugal forces

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Divisive and Unifying Forces

• Centripetal forces forces that tie the state
  together, unifying or strengthening it
• A real or perceived external threat
• A charismatic leader

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International Cooperation

• 3 principles that make international cooperation
  plausible
• 1. Complimentarity
• 2. Transferability
• 3. Intervening Opportunity

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• Complimentarity one area has a surplus of a
  commodity that a second area demands
• Transferability the ease of which the commodity
  can be transported (logistics and distance)
• Intervening Opportunity trade will only develop
  if there is no closer or more reasonable source
  of supply

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Population Implosion

• When a population urbanizes, average family size
  declines.
• Spain Italy recorded below 1.3 births per woman
• Italy the first society in world history to have
  more 60 year olds than 20 or less year olds.