What factors contribute to a Nation State developing?

1. What factors contribute to a Nation State developing?

2. Feudalism

3. Despite this rise of nationalism, the world has lots of examples of multinational and binational states. For example: African countries whose boundaries were drawn by Europeans without considering African national cultural groups. Many multinational states are unstable, especially in Africa, but not all, e.g., South Africa - now, Switzerland, Spain (or are they)? Binational states include Canada and Belgium, both of which suffer internal stresses due to differing political desires of dominant cultural groups.

4. Post-Apartheid South Africa – are things really better today?

5. Catalonia – A Nation within Spain “Separatist movements are on the rise in a number of regions of Europe. But is the wish to break away from the nation state fueled mainly by a desire to avoid the bill for the Continent's economic crisis?”

7. When the entire population of a state is not bound by the same sense of nationalism but is spilt among local primary allegiances, then that state is said to suffer from cultural subnationalism. This can lead to civil war or even international disputes (e.g., India helping the 18% Tamil population of Sri Lanka). Subnationalism is one of the centrifugal forces that pull nations apart, as compared to centripetal forces (like a strong sense of nationalism) which tend to act to bind a state together. Subnationalism has led to strong authoritarian rulers in some states, Iraq and especially in Africa, who argue that it is the only alternative to tribalism tearing the countries apart. How these countries got this way is a function of colonialism.

8. Will Quebec ever be an independent Nation? How would it function on an International level?

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