States, Nations, and Globalization

Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the learners are expected to:
1.Define nation and state.
2.Deferentiate nation from state.
3.Explain how the nation-state is created.
4.Define globalization.
5.Explain how globalization influnce nation-state.
What is a STATE?
- An organization, composed of numerous agencies led and
coordinated by the state’s leadership (executive authority), with
the ability or authority to create and implement the binding rules
for all the people as well as the parameters of rule-making for
other social organizations in a given territory, using force if
necessary to have its way.
- political entity bounded by a territory and headed by a
government.
What is a NATION?
- A complex phenomenon shaped by a collection of
cultural, political, and psychological factors
→ Both nation and state share the fact that they refer to a
single group of people despite the difference on how these
groups are organized, with one stressing a more cultural
organization and the other a more political one.
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
Population – The people sharing a geographical space. Ex.
Town, city, country
Territory – Physical area under the rule or jurisdiction a
political system or ruler.
Sovereignty – Authority of a state for self-governance and
rule.
Government – A group of individuals that administers the
function of the state.
 How is Nation- State created?
→ refers to a political unit with defined territory, government, and
constituents that more or less share the same culture and identity.
→ in a Nation-State, the political organization and the government
are supported by a cultural base of imagined unity and identity.
- Example is Southeast Asia. The Philippines from the time of
Spanish colonization. Singapore from the British. Vietnam from
French.
  What is GLOBALIZATION?
– Refers to processes whereby many social
relations become relatively delinked from territorial
geography, so that human lives are increasingly
played out in the world as a single place.
→ What is its Positive and Negative effect?
 What is a Form of Government?
→ determined by: 1.) the number of rulers;
2.) the way power is exercised by these rulers;
3.) ideologies that guide the government

What are the 3 Basic Forms of Government:

1. Democracy – the rule of the people or the many
2. Oligarchy – the rule of the priviledge few
3. Tyrrany – the rule of one individual
 According to Aristotle:

*Monarchy/Kingship Tyrrany
*Aristocracy Oligarchy
*Polity Democracy
 What are other forms of government?
a.) Monarchy vs. Republic d.) Theocracy
b.) Autocracy vs. Democracy
c.) Unitary State vs. Federal State (Federalism)