1. Nationalism Concept and Criteria

2. Essentially an Emotive force Difficult to define in rational terms Origins in Enlightenment Ideas of Social Contract Theory & Popular Representation Developed as Political Concept in French Revolution and Napoleonic era Deeply linked to concept of State and of course Nation Overview

3. Some key criteria though not all (or even any!) necessarily apply – 1.Common History 2.Geographical Space 3.Common Ethnicity 4.Shared Language Defining the Nation:

4. Plus also (again to some degree) 5.Common Religious Beliefs 6.External, International Recognition And perhaps above all: 7.Shared sense of Belonging e.g. Benedict Anderson’s concept of : An ‘Imagined Community’

5. Modern Nationalism: The Influence of French Revolution ‘Nation=State=People’