Deck 6: Nations and Nationalism

Question 1

The state has been given a clear legal definition by_________.

Answer 1

The 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States.

Question 2

Name some characteristics of the modern state that were consolidated after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

A) The principle of religious coexistence.
B) Diplomatic representation.
C) The presence of a monarchy.
D) The authority to make treaties with foreign powers.

Answer 2

A, B, D

Question 3

Name one of the criteria for a modern sovereign state as described in the first article of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States.

A) A permanent population.
B) A defined territory.
C) A government capable of maintaining effective control over its territory and of conducting international relations with other states.

Answer 3

A, B, C

Question 4

It was Hans Christian Anderson who wrote that the nation was like an 'imagined community'.

Question 5

Nationalism often involves a focus on territory, which invokes debate around '__________of power'.

Question 6

The difference between a 'nation' and a 'state' is _______.

Question 7

Which of the following are differences between nationalism and patriotism?

A) Patriotism is milder than nationalism.
B) They take a different object of devotion/loyalty (country vs nation).
C) Patriots always favour internationalism.
D) All nationalists have the same preferred style of government.

Question 8

Until recently Iceland could claim_________.

Question 9

Give an example of a multinational state as mentioned in the book.

A) The UK.
B) Papua New Guinea.
C) Canada.

Question 10

What is primordialism in the context of nations?

A) The theory that culture is key to the interpretation of a group's assumed primordial essence.
B) Primordialism views the phenomenon of the nation as something fundamental to human nature and having existed since the start of human existence.
C) The theory that nations have always existed in some form or another but are not 'given by nature'.
D) The theory that we should go back to living in tribal societies rather than states.

Question 11

The core of van den Berghe's sociobiological approach was the concept of …______.

Question 12

The modernist approach is associated mostly with the work of Ernest Gellner.

Question 13

Explain Ohmae's view on the future of the nation-state.

Question 14

Populism refers to nations expanding in population size.