NATION-STATE FORMATION

In the

PHILIPPINES
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• A NATION refers to “a large group whose
members believe they belong together on
the basis of a shared identity as a people”.

• As pointed out by Anderson, a nation is an

“imagined” community.
THE NATION IS
A PRODUCT OF
TWO FORCES
The group’s need to have cohesion
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The individual members’ desire

to belong
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N ATION could be classified either as an:

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An ethnic nation is A territorial nation is

therefore assumed something that is
to be composed of “emerged from a
more or less a predefined territory”.
single ethnic group.
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• Is “an organization, composed of numerous agencies led and
coordinate by state’s leadership that has the ability to make
and implement the binding rules.

• A state, though often thought of as synonymous with

government, it is actually broader.

• A network of systematic relationship

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SPECIALISED
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PERMANENT
MERPENANT

IMPERSONAL
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Refers to the ability of Refers to the means

the political [leaders] at the disposal of the
to formulate and state to implement
pursue goals official goals
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NATION
“AN ALIGNMENT
BETWEEN THE
Nation is supposed to be POLITICAL AND THE
the foundation of a state UNIT OF CULTURE”
and the state is supposed
to contribute toward the
consoliation of a nation.

THE CONCEPT OF
“NATION” AND “STATE”
ARE OFTIMES USED STATE
INTERCHANGEABLY.
NATION BUILDING & STATE FORMATION
For most country in Asia, The American colonial
including Philippines, Even during the Before the period, probably
states preceded the postcolonial establishment of the because of the
consolidation of national period,the Spanish colonial state, decentralized nature
identities as Western Christianized majority the government unit of the American
colonizers established already set themselves across the Philippine government,
governments the apart from the archipelago was the introduced a liberal
governance of newfound minorities by making barangay. Democratic form of
territories. fun of their traditions. government.
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LEGISLATIVE EXECUTIVE JUDICIAL