Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2010

What is a Nation?

Ingmar Karlsson

March 2009

Global Political Trends Center

Abstract

The article analyzes what do terms such as nation and nationalism mean in the current age. The author provides the reader with an extensive historical background of the topic. He explains the relevant notions from the perspective of various philosophical approaches. The possibility of emergence of a European nation and the challenges waiting on the way to common European identity, are addresses, as well.