nation-building
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Noun[edit]
- (political science) Unifying the people or peoples within a state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run.
- 1977, Reinhard Bendix, Nation-building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 357:
- Although uniquely favored by relatively viable political institutions, India yet shares this uncertainty with a large number of countries for which independence is but a first step on the road to nation-building.
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unifying the people within a state
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