ABSTRACT
If nation and nationalism are inventions of the European politicians, leaders of the Third World countries made two contributions to the corpus of political literature: ‘nation building’ and ‘national integration’. Perhaps the first book adopting the first phrase was Lucyen W. Pye’s Politics, Personality and Nation Building: Burma’s Search for Identity (1962). Within a year, the two words – nation and building – were hyphenated (Bendix, 1964).1 Within another year, a streamline was drawn: ‘Many historians speak of the “growth of nations”; some historians and many statesmen and policy-oriented political scientists speak of “nation-building”; many social scientists prefer to think and speak of “national development” ’ (Deutsch, 1966b: 2f.).
