Nation-state

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090144
- info:lc/authorities/sh85090144
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85090144#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- National state
Broader Terms
- State, The
Narrower Terms
- Nationalities, Principle of
Related Terms
- National interest
- Self-determination, National
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11978918s
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- National state
Sources
- found: Dict. of the social sciences, 2002: (nation-state: conjoining of political institutions and collective identity in single sovereign unit)
- found: Concise Oxford dict. of politics, 2003: (nation-state: sovereign entity dominated by a single nation; it is the primary unit in the study of international relations)
- found: Wikipedia, Feb. 20, 2008 (Nation state: traditionally, a nation state is a specific form of state, which exists to provide a sovereign territory for a particular nation, and which derives its legitimacy from that function; political science uses the term "nation state" for most existing sovereign states, even if their political boundaries do not coincide with ethnic boundaries)
Change Notes
- 2004-12-23: new
- 2008-04-18: revised

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