nationalism

Theory of the nation as the basis for government.

People are identified as members of historically and culturally distinct nations. The frontiers of states and the frontiers of nations should coincide; and where they do not, government should be divided or reorganized in order to achieve this.

Source:
David Miller et al., eds, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Oxford, 1987)


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