 All that I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant number of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one.  Problems of Communism - Page 851979Full view - About this book
 | Tomis Kapitan - 1997 - 400 pages
...scientifically precise definition of a nation is impossible and, at best, this phenomenon can be said to exist when "a significant number of people in a community...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one." 24 In fact, there are two features that constitute a nation, says Renan: "One is a possession in common... | |
 | Peter Ester, Loek Halman, Vladimir Olegovič Rukavišnikov - 1997 - 280 pages
...identification ie a nation's self-consciousness. That is to say, 'a nation exists when a significant part of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation or behave as if they formed one' (Seton-Watson, 1977). Therefore, a nation 'is an imagined political community [...] because the members... | |
 | Sue Wright - 1998 - 74 pages
...5) made the pragmatism of this evident when he summarised a lifetime of study with the words, 'All I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one'. In a footnote, Anderson (1991: 5-6) acknowledged the parallel between Seton- Watson's formulation and... | |
 | Brenda Shaffer - 2002 - 278 pages
...coalesced. A nation is created by choice and should be defined accordingly. According to Hugh Seton-Watson: a nation exists when a significant number of people...the whole of the population should so feel, or so behave, and it is not possible to lay down dogmatically a minimum percentage of a population which... | |
 | Boon Kheng Cheah - 2002 - 288 pages
...Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1977) as follows: "All that I can find to say is that a nation exists...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one." Anderson adds, "We may translate 'consider themselves' as 'imagine themselves'." 23 WR Roff, The Origins... | |
 | Peter Kleinen - 2002 - 324 pages
...certain number of people who exert sufficient influence on the overall public discourse within their 'community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one' (SETON-WATSON 1977: 5), this community already is or exists as a nation. In principle, I do not think... | |
 | Alan C. Monheit, Joel C. Cantor - 2004 - 224 pages
...Seton-Watson, 1977). Anderson (1991) and Seton-Watson (1977) consider all nations to be imagined communities: 'A nation exists when a significant number of people...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one' (Seton-Watson, 1977, p. 5). 'The nation ... is an imagined political community. It is imagined because... | |
 | Brian Barry - 2004 - 254 pages
...autonomous and to have its own state. In Hugh Seton- Watson's loose définition, there is such a group when 'a significant number of people in a community...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one' (Tamir 1993: 65). Unfortunately, this is very loose, because there are few clear indicators of such... | |
 | Philip Spencer, Howard Wollman - 2005 - 380 pages
...33, and 48-9. 2. Nairn, Break-up of Britain, p. 359. 3. Cf. Seton-Watson, Nations and States, p. 5: 'All that I can find to say is that a nation exists...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one.' We may translate 'consider themselves' as 'imagine themselves.' 4. Renan, 'Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?',... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 542 pages
...but no less pragmatic than Hugh Seton- Watson's (1977:5) summing up of a lifetime of study with: "All I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one." The right to self-determination, therefore, becomes centered on the need to define the term "self"... | |
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