1. The State-Idea: Geographers juggling with objective and subjective conditions

   • Gertjan Dijkink

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 4

2. Nation and patria in the emerging world order

   • Felicita Medved

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 15

3. Political culture: a typology grounded on Cultural Theory

   • VirginieD. Mamadouh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 25

4. Dutch nation-building: a struggle against the water?

   • Hans Knippenberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 40

5. Geographical perspectives on Finnish national identity

   • Anssi Paasi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 50

6. National idea, state-building and boundaries in the post-Soviet space (the case of Georgia)

   • Revaz Gachechiladze

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 60

7. The unlikely independence of Northern Italy

   • Fabrizio Eva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 75

8. Power-sharing and ‘consociational democracy’ in South Tyrol

   • Jan Markusse

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 89

9. ‘Nation-states’, ‘quasi-states’, and ‘collapsed-states’ in contemporary Africa

   • A. J. Christopher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 97

10. National identity in South Africa: the search for harmony

    • M. F. Ramutsindela

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 110