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nation-building  

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  • Nation-building refers to the general process of constructing a nation making use of the power and institutions of the state or the political community (polity). As an ideology and social mobilization, nationalism has often been attributed to earlier phases in the process of evolution of contemporary nation-states. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Nation-Building]

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