Post-National Citizenship : the Paradox : A Somali Case Study
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2013
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A nation-state can be defined as a named human population sharing an historic territory, a
common culture and common legal rights and duties for all members. Being a citizen
depends on membership in a certain national community and since the power of nationstates
derives from the people it is vital to define who belongs to these people (Smith, 1991,
in Castles & Miller, 2009, p.42). This form of national organization has successfully spread
over the entire world (Habermas, 2001, p.62). Habermas (2001, p.65) argues though that since
the end of the 1970s, this form of organization has come under increasing pressure from
forces of globalization. The cross-border flows, together with the resulting economic
integration and social transformation, have created a new world order with its own
institutions and configurations of power that replaced the previous structures associated
with the nation-state (Castles & Miller, 2009, p. 52). The nation-state now lies at the
intersection of international regimes and organizations, which have been established to
manage whole areas of transnational activity and collective policy problems (Held, 2002,
p.306).
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen