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Civilization state
Country that is a unique civilization in its own right
Civilization state
A civilization state, or civilizational state, is a country that aims to represent not just a historical territory, ethnolinguistic group, or body of governance, but a unique civilization in its own right. It is distinguished from the concept of a nation state by describing a country's dominant sociopolitical modes as constituting a category larger than a single nation. When classifying states as civilization states, emphasis is often placed on a country's historical continuity and cultural unity across a large geographic region. While coined in the context of China, the term has also been used to describe countries such as India, Russia, Iran, Egypt and Turkey. The category of the civilization state has also been criticized as setting up a false binary in service of political ulterior motives of both the proponents and the opponents of these states, and for emphasizing an oppositional relationship with the category of nation states as opposed to recognizing a combination of nation-state...
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