Complexity The relationship between a nation (in the ethnic sense) and a state can be complex. The presence of a state can encourage ethnogenesis, and a group with a pre-existing ethnic identity can influence the drawing of territorial boundaries or argue for political legitimacy. This definition of a "nation-state" is not universally accepted. "All attempts to develop terminological consensus around 'nation' failed", concludes academic Valery Tishkov. Walker Connor discusses the impressions surrounding the characters of "nation", "(sovereign) state", "nation-state", and "nationalism". Connor, who gave the term "ethnonationalism" wide currency, also discusses the tendency to confuse nation and state and the treatment of all states as if nation states.
Complexity The relationship between a nation (in the ethnic sense) and a state can be complex. The presence! of a state can enco,urage ethnogenesis, and a group with a pre-existing ethnic identity !can influence the drawing of territorial boundari:es or argue for political legitimacy. This definition of a "nation-state" is not universally accepted. "All attempts to develop terminologic,al consensus around 'nation' failed", concludes academic Valery Tishkov. Walker C,onnor discusses the impressions surrounding the characters of "nation", "(sovereign) state", "nation-state" and "nationalism". Connor who gave the term "ethnonationalism" wide currency, also discusses the tendency to confuse nation and state and the t,reatment of all states as if nation states.