Citizenship and Nation State. Is Their Coexistence Necessary?
Citizenship and Nation State. Is Their Coexistence Necessary?

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between citizenship and nation state is still one of the most intriguing and debated scholarly topic. It is, in the same time, an ever present, mostly tensioned, fact of contemporary political life. Political reality endlessly challenges theoretical frameworks and scholarly researches on this issue. The numerous questions that can be raised about the widely debated equation between the state seeking for legitimacy, on one side, and the nation, on the other, side, citizenship loyalties being simultaneously claimed by both, may be reduced to a fundamental one: what kind of solidarities dominate in a political community, or, more simply, what binds people together? Answers to this question are based on the equation between state, citizens and nation that characterizes political modernity

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