مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Transformation of Nation-State Citizenship and Citizenship as a Concept of Identity

Abstract :

This study is about the evolution of the citizenship concept starting from the nation-state citizenship to global citizenship. In the study issues like the ways how the citizenship concept has been defined in the historical span, what the measures that determine the citizenship are, the changes that the concept has been exposed to up to now, are discussed. This study discusses the struggle of the Turkish people during their transition from villainage to vassalage and then to citizenship and the effects of the global citizenship project on national citizenship in the context of the effects of globalism in the 21st century. The study considers the theoretical approaches during the historical process of the citizenship and the differences between the world citizenship and global citizenship, and they are discussed in the context of structural and factual features of nation-state and the concepts of nation and nationalism, which are the early steps of nation-state citizenship. Moreover, the economical, social and cultural consequences of the transition from nation-state citizenship to global citizenship and the outlook of global citizenship project are stated. We live in a new century in which micro-nationalism and ethnic awakening is increasing rapidly under the name of nation-state citizenship global citizenship project, and the compulsions of the international powers over inoffensive countries are becoming more intense day by day. However, this century will be a century in which the presence of nation states is appreciated once more.