He proposes a workable definition of his own wherein nationalism invents nations where they do not exist (6). In his view, a nation is defined as a socially constructed community distinguished by the ...

“The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation,” reads article 3. “No body, no individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from it ...

Writer Michael Goldfarb considers the definition of the 'nation' for the globalised 21st century. Is it the same as a country? Are a people or a tribe the same thing as a nation?