STATE VS. NATION State, as we know today is a political term, which could be define as an institution that organises and makes countries or nations being governed. We could add to this definition that state as institution is a need of society at a certain stage of development to control and to enforce society into a common will. The state has legitimated the use of force over a given territory to enforce laws. The …showed first 75 words of 495 total…

…showed last 75 words of 495 total…may become sufficient to join those people toward common goals, interests and a single sovereignty. We could say that there is a unity among those three things. In short, from the social point of view, physical territory is not mandatory for a group of people with aspirations toward sovereignty over a piece of land, example, the Kurd people of Northern Iraq and Turkey, or many groups of nationalists in Europe as the Basques in Spain.