Nation

Alain Dieckhoff (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Almost every scholar who has dealt with national issues has started by acknowledging that a basic problem is to find an adequate definition of the key concept of nation, and sometimes also the related concept of nationalism. Indeed, to use Ernest Renan’s very well-known question raised in 1882, what is a nation?

Mots clés: Nation; Nationalism

Domaines: Science politique

Alain Dieckhoff. Nation. John Stone; Dennis M Rutledge; Anthony D Smith; Polly S Rizova; Xiaoshuo Hou. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell, pp.1 - 4, 2016, 9781405189781. ⟨hal-01292847⟩