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André Munro
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André Munro is a regular freelance contributor as well as a former editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Northwestern University) and has written numerous articles on political science for Britannica.
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Nation building, a concerted project to construct or rebuild a nation-state and its underlying institutions and sense of community. The objective of nation building can be to create a cohesive nation-state that never existed or that never properly functioned or to rebuild one that has collapsed or…
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