Nation-Building Quiz

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What is the aim of nation-building?

To encourage division and conflict within the state
To promote individualism within the state
To establish a dictatorship for state control
To unify the people within the state for long-term political stability (correct)

According to Harris Mylonas, what is the process through which majorities are constructed in modern national states?

Diplomatic negotiations
Economic sanctions
Nation-building (correct)
Military intervention

What are some of the government programs involved in nation-building?

Social media manipulation and censorship
Religious indoctrination and cultural eradication
Military conscription and national content mass schooling (correct)
Tax evasion and corruption

What are the three nation-building policies identified by Harris Mylonas?

<p>Accommodation, assimilation, and exclusion (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Columbia University sociologist Andreas Wimmer, what factors tend to determine the success of nation-building over the long run?

<p>Early development of civil-society organisations, rise of a capable state, and emergence of a shared medium of communication (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers