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On Nations and International Boundaries - The European Case
On Nations and International Boundaries - The European Case

Author(s): Gideon Biger
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: international boundaries; nations; Europe

Summary/Abstract: It seems that our world is made of mainly nation states – independent states based on one particular nation, sometimes with some minorities in that state. Thus the model seams to be ‘a nation is establishing its boundaries’. On the other hand, our world also has the ‘boundaries that made a nation’ model, in which a nation was created after boundaries were drawn. Most independent European countries belong to the first model but Spain, Belgium, and five tiny states belong to the second model.

  • Issue Year: 18/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-77
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English