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is a big, blind worm. It has no honor, it never keeps its word because it has no word to keep.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what' Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep . Carl Jung

is a bordered power-container. According to giddens, a nation 'only exist when a state has a unified administrative reach over the territory over which its sovereignty is claimed.

Anthony Giddens defines the nation as a 'bordered power-container.' According to Giddens, a nation 'only exist when a state has a unified administrative reach over the territory over which its sovereignty is claimed,'3 and a 'nation-state' is 'a set of institutional forms of governance maintaining and administrating monopoly over a territory with demarcated boundaries (borders), its rule being sanctioned by law and direct control of the means of internal and external violence.'4

is a political and military entity but it need not be the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth.

Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance. Jane Jacobs

is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail.

regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.

is an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy.

I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation. Theodor Herzl

is an idea tied to salvation since salvation is to be found in the wholesome work upon a beloved land, work which provides a people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. Theodor Herzl

is an imagined political community, imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.

In an anthropological spirit, then, I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.

is an imagined political community, imagined in that fellow members will never meet each other face-to-face. It involves a horizontal comradeship that cuts across any actual inequalities.

He defined a nation as 'an imagined political community'. As Anderson puts it, a nation 'is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion'.

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