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How do concepts of citizenship vary between nation-state? How does globalisation impact on these concepts? Citizenship is a relationship between the individual and the state in which the two are bound together by reciprocal rights and duties. Citizens differ from subjects and aliens in that they are full members of their political community or state by virtue of their possession of basic rights. Citizenship is viewed differently depending on whether it is shared by individualism or communitarianism, (Heywood, A 1997:397). The nation-state is a form of political organisation, and a political ideal. In the first class, it is an autonomous political community bound together by the overlapping bonds of citizenship and nationality. It is thus an alternative to multinational empires and city-states. In the later case, the nation-state is a principle, or ideal type, reflected in Mazzini's goal: 'every nation a state, only one state for the entire nation'. This acknowledges that...

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