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The Nation-State, Past and Present
The European Legacy (1996)
  • Harry R. Ritter, Western Washington University
Abstract
The American political scientist Dankwart A. Rustow once correctly called nation the "central political concept of recent times." Since the French Revolution--itself the central political event of modern times--the nation-state, as both an idea and a political reality, has been an indispensable cornerstone of that modern world "paradigm" described in the ISSEI's 1994 conference announcement as "the conceptual framework through which Europeans and non-Europeans conceive of both physical and human nature."
Disciplines
Publication Date
1996
Publisher Statement
Taylor & Francis DOI:10.1080/10848779608579470
Citation Information
Harry R. Ritter. "The Nation-State, Past and Present" The European Legacy (1996)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harry_ritter/24/