Anderson defines the nation as, “an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign… “The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.

Nation as an imagined community As Anderson puts it, a nation “is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion”.

Nations are nothing natural. They are “imagined communities” created by human beings, as Benedict Anderson prominently wrote. A nation becomes real when a sufficient number of people identify with it.

The Global Imaginary: Citizenship in the Global Village Its starting point is Benedict Anderson’s formulation of the nation as an “imagined community” and his recognition of the central role of media in that conception. McLuhan’s global village is indeed being realized, but it is not the utopia he prophesied.

Although socially constructed, nationalism still seems like having an impersonal character and the nation is commonly conceived of as a holistic system within which modern political relations are embedded.

Some examples of social constructs are countries and money. It is easier to see how countries could be social constructs than it is to see how money is a social construct. Countries would not exist were it not for human interaction.

Both nations and nationalism are modern. I say roughly because these three positions include a variety of views. For example, the first position is advanced in at least three different ways.

National Power is the ability or capability of a nation to secure the goals and objectives of its national interests in relation with other nations. It involves the capacity to use force or threat of use of force or influence over others for securing the goals of national interest.

Population factor has been a source of limitation on India’s national power. It has adversely affected the economic growth rate and has posed a perpetual food problem for India. Poverty of India has been largely due to its over-population.

For the United States to achieve optimal outcomes following a military conflict, it must converge all four elements of national power—diplomacy, information, military, and economics (DIME)—into a cohesive, multi-domain campaign plan before, during, and following military confrontation.

Example: the authority to levy and collect taxes, coin money, make war, raise an army and navy, and to regulate commerce among states.

The Three Powers: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary The separation of powers is an essential element of the Rule of Law, and is enshrined in the Constitution.

There are three distinct types of delegated powers: expressed, implied, and inherent. Although the Constitution delegates certain powers to the National Government, it also denies certain powers to that level of government in order to keep federalism intact.

There are three main types of power in the United States government, the enumerated, reserved, and concurrent powers. The federal and state governments share powers in similar areas, and in some they don’t share any.

Terms in this set (17)

• army. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
• bankruptcy & naturalization.
• 2 borrow.
• coin.
• commerce.
• courts.
• counterfeit.
• DC.

Many powers belonging to the federal government are shared by state governments. Such powers are called concurrent powers. These include the power to tax, spend, and borrow money. State governments operate their own judicial systems, charter corporations, provide public education, and regulate property rights.

Only the federal government can coin money, regulate the mail, declare war, or conduct foreign affairs. So long as their laws do not contradict national laws, state governments can prescribe policies on commerce, taxation, healthcare, education, and many other issues within their state.

theocracy and communism. Oligarchy is where a small group of people have control over a country or organization. Theocracy is a system of government where the priests rule in the name of God. Monarchy is where a single person is the head of a government.

An autocracy is a government in which one person has all the power. There are two main types of autocracy: a monarchy and a dictatorship. In a monarchy, a king or queen rules the country. The king or queen is known as a monarch.

Oligarchy, meaning “rule of the few”, is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people might be distinguished by nobility, wealth, family ties, education or corporate, religious or military control.