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Where are the borders? National identity and national security

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Many of today’s borders are the result of imperfect post-conflict compromises, the collapse of empires or the artificial imposition of colonial powers. As a consequence, nations and states are seldom perfectly congruous. Almost no state is ethnically homogeneous or a “pure” nation-state – multi-ethnicity is the norm. People sharing the same ethnicity do not necessarily share the same citizenship, and vice versa. And people of one nation may be spread among many states. Think of the Serb communities living outside of Serbia, or Albanians living in Kosovo and Macedonia, or Russians in the “near abroad”. In some parts of the world, borders are so vague that ethnic and tribal groups move back and forth across them and feel that they are among “kin” on both sides: for example, the Baluchis and Pashtuns straddling Afghanistan and Pakistan, or the Tuareg groups in the Sahel region of Africa.

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