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In the previous chapter, I defined a nation as a group of people whose members self-identify with a political culture of a certain kind. This political culture is related to the group’s shared goal of maintaining or acquiring collective agency that would enable it to control its political future. I also established that nations have the capacity of being free in relation to other similar agents and thus of holding a primary moral right. The self-identification component in my definition of nationhood is designed to exclude vacuous political cultures in transitional or oppressive societies, but it is these societies that most need claims to self-determination on their territory to be regulated.
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Moltchanova, A. (2009). Potential Political Cultures. In: National Self-Determination and Justice in Multinational States. Studies in Global Justice, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2691-0_4
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