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The 35 pages that link to Nation-state, each with the reason it gives.

• NationalismRelated: Nationalist movements often seek this alignment of political borders and national community.

• Habsburg MonarchyCompared with: The monarchy’s many languages and historic territories resisted a single national definition.

• DiasporaCompared with: Diasporic belonging can cross the territorial boundaries that organize nation-states.

• Ethnic nationalismNarrower topic: Ethnic nationalism seeks to align political borders with a culturally or ancestrally defined nation.

• State formationCompared with: State formation can precede or occur without the alignment of state and nation.

• RevolutionNarrower topic: Revolutionary movements have helped establish and redefine modern nation-states.

• StateBroader topic: It is a specific form of state that links political authority to national identity.

• Unitary stateNarrower topic: Unitary government became one way nation-states pursued common laws and centralized national institutions.

• ModernityRelated: Modern political order increasingly organized authority through territorial states and national identity.

• CentralizationRelated: Nation-building has often used centralized institutions to unify laws, schooling, and administration.

• NationRelated: It joins national identity to state sovereignty, though the two boundaries rarely align perfectly.

• Hindu nationalismRelated: Hindu nationalist arguments connect India’s statehood to a particular account of national identity.

• Religious nationalismNarrower topic: Religious nationalism seeks to align the state’s political boundaries with a religiously defined nation.

• EmpireCompared with: The nation-state ideal links territory and national membership more closely than many empires did.

• National romanticismRelated: The movement often flourished as cultural communities sought recognition in political form.

• Imagined communityRelated: The nation-state gives imagined national belonging a powerful institutional form.

• Mandala (Southeast Asian political model)Compared with: Modern national borders can obscure the fluid political geography the mandala model describes.

• Democratic confederalismCompared with: The model seeks self-government through confederated communities rather than state sovereignty.

• Sovereign stateBroader topic: It is a particular form of sovereign state, not a synonym for every state.

• National liberationRelated: Liberation movements often seek to establish a state as the institutional form of national self-rule.

• City-stateCompared with: Unlike a city-state, a nation-state usually encompasses a larger territory and claims to represent a nation.

• Murray BookchinCompared with: Bookchin opposed its centralized sovereignty to power rooted in local assemblies and confederations.

• Antonio NegriCompared with: Negri argues that global sovereignty exceeds the traditional boundaries of nation-states.

• TianxiaCompared with: Its bounded membership differs from Tianxia’s aspiration to include the world.

• Historical regionCompared with: A historical region may span several nation-states or persist after a state disappears.

• National dayNarrower topic: National days commonly celebrate the creation or sovereignty of a nation-state.

• Republic of New AfrikaNarrower topic: The proposed republic would transform a national community into a sovereign state.

• The Origins of TotalitarianismRelated: Arendt examines how the nation-state’s decline left minorities without reliable political protection.

• AnationalismRelated: Anationalism rejects national divisions as the basis for political belonging.

• Country (politics)Related: It is a particular alignment of country, state, and nation, not a synonym for every country.

• Modern era (history)Related: National identity and centralized sovereignty reshaped political organization.

• National liberalismRelated: It is the political form through which national unity and sovereignty are commonly pursued.

• Neue Slowenische KunstCompared with: NSK’s state without fixed territory unsettles the usual link between nation and land.

• Political history of the worldRelated: The nation-state became a dominant, though not universal, form of modern rule.

• Rise of nationalism in EuropeNarrower topic: The nineteenth-century movements made the nation-state a dominant model of political organization.