Dr. Noora Lori • Borders, nations and a new world • د. نورة لوري | Minwar Podcast

Minwar Podcast • We talk with Dr. Noora Lori – Assistant Professor of International Relations – about nations, borders and a new world. In this episode, we try to understand and critique the realities of nation states. We explore how nation states emerged and meanings of sovereignty, citizenship, nationalism. How do empires exercise their hard and soft powers in developing identities around this system? How does this political technology fit into the current world?

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00:00 — About Dr. Noora Lori
02:10 — Episode Introduction
03:17 — How the modern nation state emerged?
07:55 — Economics, and the nation state
10:27 — The legitimacy of violence
13:50 — Sovereignty
15:30 — Western Europe, colonization and post-colonization
19:00 — The world before the formation of the nation state
27:19 — Nationalism and identity making
38:35 — Ideological empires and soft powers
1:06:20 — In defense of the nation state, and new perspectives
1:19:29 — The Middle East
1:28:05 — National loyalties (And a tribute to Edward Snowden)
1:34:20 — Imagining a new world
1:42:30 — Bahrain