ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a wide variety of accounts of the nation and assessed the claims for statehood consequential on them; less, in that a preferred account have not plumped and gone to the limits to defend it. There are, of course, legitimate compounds in which it is clear how the elements work together to ground a putative right to statehood. Certainly, in a political argument for self-determination, a variety of considerations may be marshaled in support of it which might outweigh the reasons against it that stem from its possible adverse effects. The conditions of economic life now make cultural homogeneity possible only as a result of repression or the cultural imperialism of those who dominate global markets. The assumption of an equivalence between a common culture and a shared community which jointly underpin a nation-state is no longer tenable.
