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State Structures in New Nations: the Case of Primary Agricultural Marketing in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

David B. Jones
David B. Jones
Affiliation:
Agricultural Program Adviser, Office of the Representative for Eastern and Southern Africa, The Ford Foundation, Nairobi.
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There are nations and there are states. There is, for example, an Armenian nation but no state, and it is the aim of some Armenian nationalists to set up a state. This example follows a liberal European paradigm; that a sense of nationhood creates unity of purpose that allows the state to come into existence, and creates a consensus of popular acceptance that enables it to function. The state may be carved out of something larger, as in the Greek case, or out of smaller units, as in the German case. There is plenty of evidence, ancient and modern, that without a consensus of acceptance, it is very difficult for a state to prosper economically or to be free of repression and crippling internal conflict.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 553 - 569
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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