Nation and State in the

Age of Globalization

Kent L. Saldaña
Teresa Egaan
Mara Linao
 IDENTIFY IDENTITY !
 Which do you think of the following
pictures is the STATE? the NATION?
 Define Me !
Nation and State are two similar and
sometimes interchangeable yet different
concepts in political science.

• State is a type of polity that is an organized political

community living under a single system of
government and may or may not be sovereign.
• A Nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus,
class, flock") is a large group or collective of people
with common characteristics attributed to them -
including language, traditions, mores (customs), habitus
(habits), and ethnicity.
(Quilop, 2006)

STATE NATION

• Political entity which • More cultural and

is bounded by a identity-based.
territory and headed by
a government.
What is Globalization?
a process of interaction and integration
among the people, companies, and
governments of different nations, a
process driven by international trade and
investment and aided by information
technology.
What is Nation-State?
a type of state that joins the political
entity of a state to the cultural entity of
a nation, from which it aims to derive
its political legitimacy to rule and
potentially its status as a sovereign state if
one accepts the declarative theory of
statehood as opposed to the constitutive
theory.
THANK YOU =D