ABSTRACT
Political geographers define nation-states as nations, or groups of people with common cultural characteristics, that are housed within a state or country where the one national group dominates (Glassner 1996: 48). Among the most common examples are Japan, Egypt and Sweden. Today, however, the world is more complex than this traditional definition suggests in political, economic and socio-cultural terms. The threshold between pure nation-states and multi-ethnic states is no longer as clear as it once was.
